Being an Early-Career CMS Academic in the Context of Insecurity and ‘Excellence’: The Dialectics of Resistance and Compliance

Organization Studies, Journal Year: 2017, Volume and Issue: 38(9), P. 1185 - 1207

Published: Feb. 17, 2017

Drawing on a dialectical approach to resistance, we conceptualise the latter as multifaceted, pervasive and contradictory phenomenon. This enables us examine predicament in which early-career Critical Management Studies academics find themselves current times of academic insecurity ‘excellence’, gleaned through this group’s understandings resisters participants complex forces constituting their field. We draw 24 semi-structured interviews map our participants’ accounts terms different approaches tensions contradictions between, one hand, interviewees’ alignment and, other, ethos business school neoliberalism. Emerging from analysis are three contingent interlinked narratives resistance identity – diplomatic, combative idealistic each encapsulates particular mode (negotiation, struggle, laying one’s own path) engaging with relationship between ethos. The show how not only use existing tensions, contradictions, overlaps alliances these positions resist comply selected within each, but also contribute (re-)making such overlaps, alliances, contradictions. Through reworking what it means be both scholars academics, argue, can seen active re-constituters

Language: Английский

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Co-optation as a response to competing institutional logics: Professionals and managers in healthcare

Journal of Professions and Organization, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 5(2), P. 71 - 87

Published: Jan. 22, 2018

Researchers working under the institutional logics perspective find struggle between managerial logic and various professional one of most intriguing issues in healthcare organizations. Previous research provided several explanations at both organizational level (mediation, hybridization, selective coupling) individual actor (hierarchization, sense making, re-interpretation, hijacking) for coexistence healthcare. However, all these are based on underlying not changing. In this article, we show that co-optation can explain logics, but it also causes to change. Co-optation means an adopts a strategic element from another retains important elements its own logic. Empirically, article illustrates processes through qualitative study outpatient units child adolescent psychiatric care Sweden. Using framework, describe how managers co-opted professionals their attempts support interests. Even if is performed protect home logic, ultimately change it. This contributes framework by describing explaining be dynamic response competing level.

Language: Английский

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Translating Institutional Logics: When the Media Logic Meets Professions

Organization Studies, Journal Year: 2016, Volume and Issue: 37(11), P. 1661 - 1684

Published: July 14, 2016

This article presents results from a case study of media activities in Swedish governmental agency where we illustrate a) how the logic is translated and become embedded studied agency, b) different professional groups inside organization shape translation process. Theoretically do this by re-visiting notion translation. Translation theory focuses on local enactment embeddedness institutional models, ideals practices. Institutional logics literature, other hand, creation flow field-level meaning systems. By combining these two theoretical perspectives are able to form framework for understanding logics. The result our suggests that – once they introduced given context consist four elements interpreted enacted differently organizations. We identify three local, profession-based value systems logics, use finding theorize role shaping processes.

Language: Английский

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Organizational responses to multiple logics: Diversity, identity and the professional service firm

Accounting Organizations and Society, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 103, P. 101336 - 101336

Published: April 6, 2022

This paper is located within the research problematic of multiple logics with reference to professional service firms (PSFs), and in particular audit firms. Within this multi-logic (“hybrid”) complex organization, we are specifically concerned impacts new institutional that reflect social political movements - case diversity legislation how these absorbed managed organizations’ structures practices. Based upon a study large medium sized UK, consider organizational responses demands for improved among firm members, especially senior elite, context passing Equality Act, 2010, subsequent which both consolidated extended UK laws on discrimination. Our indicates such sites have value demonstrating conflict between shifts its terms reference. While most commercialism professionalism has been successfully through mechanisms hybridization, bring fore struggles ideas about merit evaluation processes practices more intractable. work contributes an understanding dependencies (blending) co-existences (separation) can exist diversity, commercial practice organizations. We further highlight role identity scripts shape individuals situationally demarcate their identities as they struggle challenge dominant logics.

Language: Английский

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How Idealized Professional Identities Can Persist through Client Interactions

Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 67(3), P. 865 - 912

Published: May 25, 2022

How can a professional identity persist when it is mismatched with the reality of work demands in one’s first job? Existing theory suggests that new members profession should adapt their identities to align profession’s and organization’s goals. Using data from an ethnographic study first-time hospital nurses, I develop concept idealized identities—identities rooted image history occupation rather than reality—and depict how these through client interactions despite negative consequences. When left unchecked under increasingly common conditions weak on-the-job socialization, nurses my infantilized patients purposefully avoided who denied even though practices ran counter patient satisfaction empowerment goals organization nursing profession. The opportunity enact cherished few clients granted them may have perpetuated dynamics by supporting retention professionals otherwise exited. This socialization into role come not only gatekeepers, peers, or organizational management but also internalization be kept alive about clients.

Language: Английский

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Who cares about the dying? – Unpacking integration of palliative care and oncology in the Danish context

Health Sociology Review, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 18

Published: March 11, 2025

Integrating palliative care into the trajectories of patients with incurable cancer has been a priority for years. Yet, intended outcomes this integration remain elusive. Many advanced continue to receive so-called aggressive treatments in end-of-life phase or miss out on specialised entirely. To examine impasse Danish context, we employ concept professional value scripts analyse policy documents and guidelines aimed at guiding professionals working patient group. The three identified – treatment, medical palliation holistic embody distinct understanding integration, contributing challenges forging an integrated approach. We argue that central role treatment script creates obligatory passage point, influencing both symbolic practical enactment throughout these trajectories.

Language: Английский

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“Devils May Sit Here:” The Role of Enchantment in Institutional Maintenance

Academy of Management Journal, Journal Year: 2016, Volume and Issue: 60(4), P. 1607 - 1632

Published: June 8, 2016

This paper contributes to the literature on maintenance of institutions by analyzing case an old profession—Scottish advocates. Drawing neo-institutional perspective professions, we address question, what role does organizational space play in institutional maintenance? We draw our ethnographic study make a three-fold contribution. Firstly, shows how spaces, and actors interacting with them, have stabilizing effect institution, which leads two important outcomes: closure reproduction status order. Secondly, show three spatial phenomena underpinning this process are intertwined, thus enabling maintenance: (1) emplacement, (2) enactment space, (3) enchantment space. Thirdly, foregrounding evoked highlight importance emotional aesthetic aspects maintenance.

Language: Английский

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Bridging competing demands through co-leadership? Potential and limitations

Human Relations, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 73(4), P. 464 - 489

Published: Nov. 12, 2019

Collective leadership arrangements in which two people jointly occupy a shared role space are often thought to enable the bridging of competing demands and sources expertise legitimacy pluralistic settings where multiple institutional logics coexist. This research investigates 20 co-leadership dyads health care organizations examine whether, when, how can logics. Empirical findings suggest that potential for through is present, but it may be achieved assimilation one side by other rather than balanced integration demands. We conclude challenge collective (and co-leadership, particular) lie not only developing smooth relations among leaders their followers, also maintaining mobilizing tensions make collaboration most fruitful. literature has missed significance this central paradox: needed difficult achieve. When seems operate smoothly, possible always fulfilling its mission.

Language: Английский

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Enacting Professional Service Work in Times of Digitalization and Potential Disruption

Journal of Service Research, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 24(2), P. 249 - 268

Published: May 21, 2020

Digitalization has the potential to disrupt many service industries. This is already evident in industries offering standardized business-to-consumer services. Even knowledge-intensive business-to-business (B2B) services have increasingly blended digital technologies. Yet, little known about how this type of and its associated work changed, as tasks are being performed by robots or through artificial intelligence. study fills void exploring frontline workers two highly B2B industries—auditing public relations/communication (PR/C) consulting—enact their response digitalization. Building on an interview with 50 professionals taking interdisciplinary stance we find—contrary findings previous research—that auditing firms embrace digitalization a larger extent than PR/C firms. Further, find that workers’ enactment influenced fit between technological innovations intelligence built on, well occupational identities climate within We conclude article developing propositions conceptual model, outline can support infusion technologies work.

Language: Английский

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Sociomateriality and Affect in Institutional Work: Constructing the Identity of Start-Up Entrepreneurs

Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal Year: 2017, Volume and Issue: 28(3), P. 381 - 394

Published: Dec. 1, 2017

Identity construction as a form of institutional work has mainly been studied from discursive perspectives. We examine how the identity start-up entrepreneurs is constructed within sociomaterial setting major and technology conference, to enhance institutionalization entrepreneurship. draw theories performative construction, sociomateriality, affect. Our study contributes research on by highlighting affective nature work. demonstrate rock star, vital entrepreneur, buddy in ecosystem. Furthermore, we present characteristics agency that strengthen identification with institution entrepreneurship: multisensority, temporal multidimensionality, dynamics equality exceptionality building. also critically demonstrates identities tend reinforce link between entrepreneurship masculinity.

Language: Английский

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