Behind the Viennese Façade: Identity, Ambiguity and Local Belonging in Vladimir Vertlib's Lucia Binar und die russische Seele (2015)

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Edward Muston
Keyword(s):  
Identity Ambiguity

scholarly journals Why Open Innovation is Easier Said Than Done: An Organizational Identity Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-67
Author(s):  
Maral Mahdad ◽  
Chiara E. De Marco ◽  
Andrea Piccaluga ◽  
Alberto Di Minin
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Organizational Transformation ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Identity Ambiguity ◽  
University Scientists

In this article, we explore and interpret organizational identity transformation associated with open innovation strategy of the largest telecommunication company in Italy, Telecom Italia (TIM). When TIM established eight joint laboratories within five major Italian universities to benefit from opening its business model, it transferred some of the R&D employees to the new laboratories to work with the university scientists. This organizational transformation created underexplored conditions for R&D employees engaged in the open innovation activities of the firm. Our interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) answers the question of “How do R&D employees experience organizational identity change in the process of open innovation?”. We based our analysis on interpreting lived experiences of 14 employees. Studying the phenomena of organizational identity change during the process of open innovation implementation suggests the following: (1) The process of open innovation through mobility of skilled R&D employees triggers organizational identity ambiguity and change, (2) Organizational identity ambiguity phase in the process of open innovation can be shortened by the support of parent company and managerial skills highlighting sensemaking mechanisms, (3) Constructing a shared organizational identity with university members involved in this process is an undeniable element of OI success for this strategy. We contribute to the literature by establishing linkages among organizational identity and open innovation and by building on recent works on the role of individuals within open innovation ecosystem. Our qualitative analysis draws on a conceptual framework for open innovation and organizational identity transformation.

scholarly journals From clinician to educator: A scoping review of professional identity and the influence of impostor phenomenon

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Kirsty J Freeman ◽  
Sandra E Carr ◽  
Brid Phillips ◽  
Farah Noya ◽  
Debra Nestel
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Impostor Phenomenon ◽  
Healthcare Education ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Identity Ambiguity ◽  
Healthcare Educators

Introduction: As healthcare educators undergo a career transition from providing care to providing education, their professional identity can also transition accompanied by significant threat. Given their qualifications are usually clinical in nature, healthcare educators’ knowledge and skills in education and other relevant theories are often minimal, making them vulnerable to feeling fraudulent in the healthcare educator role. This threat and vulnerability is described as the impostor phenomenon. The aim of this study was to examine and map the concepts of professional identity and the influence of impostor phenomenon in healthcare educators. Methods: The authors conducted a scoping review of health professions literature. Six databases were searched, identifying 121 relevant articles, eight meeting our inclusion criteria. Two researchers independently extracted data, collating and summarising the results. Results: Clinicians who become healthcare educators experience identity ambiguity. Gaps exist in the incidence and influence of impostor phenomenon in healthcare educators. Creating communities of practice, where opportunities exist for formal and informal interactions with both peers and experts, has a positive impact on professional identity construction. Faculty development activities that incorporate the beliefs, values and attributes of the professional role of a healthcare educator can be effective in establishing a new professional identity. Conclusion: This review describes the professional identity ambiguity experienced by clinicians as they take on the role of healthcare educator and solutions to ensure a sustainable healthcare education workforce.

scholarly journals Anti-identity strategizing: The dynamic interplay of “who we are” and “who we are not”

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stanske ◽  
Madeleine Rauch ◽  
Anna Canato
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Strategy Selection ◽  
Discontinuous Change ◽  
Change Trajectories ◽  
Change Initiatives ◽  
Identity Ambiguity ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

In this article, we investigate the strategy–identity nexus by illustrating the interaction between organizational identity, anti-identity, and strategy. While extant research illustrates the potentially constraining role of organizational identity on change trajectories, less is known about the role of organizational anti-identity. Drawing on a qualitative case study of a leading German distributor’s 32-year history, we highlight the importance of organizational anti-identity for both continuous and discontinuous change initiatives, and illustrate how organizational members can overcome identity ambiguity by referring to “who we are not as an organization” rather than to “who we are as an organization.” We further show how managers who draw on identity reservoirs may have greater leeway when exploiting anti-identity, and how ambiguity and resistance may be overcome by referring to “who we are not” as an organization. Our findings broaden our understanding of the role of anti-identity for strategy selection and contribute to the burgeoning literature on the strategy–identity nexus.

Identity Ambiguity and Change in the Wake of a Corporate Spin-off

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-208
Author(s):  
Kevin G. Corley ◽  
Dennis A. Gioia
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Collective State ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Interpretive Case Study ◽  
Identity Ambiguity ◽  
Fortune 100 ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Experience Of Change ◽  
Independent Organization

We report on the findings of an inductive, interpretive case study of organizational identity change in the spin-off of a Fortune 100 company's top-performing organizational unit into an independent organization. We examined the processes by which the labels and meanings associated with the organization's identity underwent changes during and after the spin-off, as well as how the organization responded to these changes. The emergent model of identity change revolved around a collective state of identity ambiguity, the details of which provide insight into processes whereby organizational identity change can occur. Additionally, our findings revealed previously unreported aspects of organizational change, including organization members' collective experience of “change overload” and the presence of temporal identity discrepancies in the emergence of the identity ambiguity.

Grasping for Metaphors: Identity Ambiguity Contributes to the Preference for Metaphor Usage

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 764-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Bultmann ◽  
Nathan Wheeler ◽  
Tyler Jimenez ◽  
Jamie Arndt
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Identity Ambiguity ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Mediating Factor

Metaphors are frequently used linguistic devices that have the power to clarify ambiguous topics. In turn, a clear and stable self-concept is important to psychological functioning. The current article examines the potential role of self-concept clarity in understanding metaphor usage. Study 1 found that self-concept clarity negatively predicts metaphor usage. Study 2 found that experimentally lowering self-concept clarity led to more metaphor usage in general, and that self-reported self-concept clarity was implicated as a potential mediating factor. Implications are discussed.

Reality bites: Managing identity ambiguity in an advertising agency

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Round ◽  
Alexander Styhre
Keyword(s):  
Advertising Agency ◽  
Identity Ambiguity
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