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The Aesthetic Turn in Management
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The Aesthetic Turn in Management

by Stella Minahan
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
582 pages
22h 41m
English
Routledge
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[13]Narratives of Organizational Identity and Identification: A Case Study of Hegemony and Resistance *

Michael Humphreys, Andrew D. Brown

Michael Humphreys, Andrew D. BrownNottingham University Business School, UK

Abstract

This paper focuses on issues of identity and identification in a UK-based institution of higher education (Westville1 Institute). It is suggested that identity, both individual and collective, and the processes of identification which bind people to organizations, are constituted in the personal and shared narratives that people author in their efforts to make sense of their world and read meaning into their lives. The research contribution this paper makes is threefold. First, it illustrates how an organization’s identity ...

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