Boundary Crossings at the Intersection of Texts and Identities

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-348
Author(s):  
Tamie R. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Crossings

scholarly journals Boundary Crossings and Violations in Clinical Settings

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. K. Aravind ◽  
V. D. Krishnaram ◽  
Z. Thasneem
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Boundary Crossings

Brothels as Hidden Organizations

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
Sarah Jane Blithe ◽  
Anna Wiederhold Wolfe ◽  
Breanna Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Image Management ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Stigma Management ◽  
Boundary Crossings ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Organizational Stakeholders

This chapter examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by the brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, the authors examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.

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