The Invisible Hand Guiding the Non-managerial Organisation: A case study about what shapes identification and professional identity in a consultancy firm
(2020) BUSN49 20201Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- Purpose: We aim to develop a deeper understanding of non-managerial organisations by exploring the implications of this way of organising on the identification processes and professional identity of consultants.
Theoretical Background: In our theoretical background, we highlight previous literature on different aspects of identity and identification as well as the interrelation of these topics with Foucault’s conceptualisation of power/knowledge.
Methodology: This thesis comprises research conducted in the interpretivist tradition and encompasses a qualitative case study, which was formulated and made sense of using an abductive approach. The work was thus developed going back and forth between theory and our empirical material. Our... (More) - Purpose: We aim to develop a deeper understanding of non-managerial organisations by exploring the implications of this way of organising on the identification processes and professional identity of consultants.
Theoretical Background: In our theoretical background, we highlight previous literature on different aspects of identity and identification as well as the interrelation of these topics with Foucault’s conceptualisation of power/knowledge.
Methodology: This thesis comprises research conducted in the interpretivist tradition and encompasses a qualitative case study, which was formulated and made sense of using an abductive approach. The work was thus developed going back and forth between theory and our empirical material. Our data set was constructed using multiple data collection methods, primarily 11 semi-structured interviews, supplemented by a text analysis and material from a guest lecture.
Contribution: Our thesis contributes to the literature on non-managerial organisations by providing insights into the implications of this form of organising for identification and professional identity in a consultancy context. We suggest that identification processes as well as professional identity can be organisationally influenced by providing values that create a culture in which what is considered an appropriate professional identity is expressed and regulated in social interaction and peer dynamics. (Less)
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- author
- Heck, Ricarda Elisabeth LU and Snijders Blok, Nadine LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- BUSN49 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- non-managerial/non-hierarchical organisation, identity, identification, professional identity, identity regulation, consultancy, consultants, provisional selves, power/knowledge
- language
- English
- id
- 9018411
- date added to LUP
- 2020-06-25 11:30:48
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abstract = {{Purpose: We aim to develop a deeper understanding of non-managerial organisations by exploring the implications of this way of organising on the identification processes and professional identity of consultants.
Theoretical Background: In our theoretical background, we highlight previous literature on different aspects of identity and identification as well as the interrelation of these topics with Foucault’s conceptualisation of power/knowledge.
Methodology: This thesis comprises research conducted in the interpretivist tradition and encompasses a qualitative case study, which was formulated and made sense of using an abductive approach. The work was thus developed going back and forth between theory and our empirical material. Our data set was constructed using multiple data collection methods, primarily 11 semi-structured interviews, supplemented by a text analysis and material from a guest lecture.
Contribution: Our thesis contributes to the literature on non-managerial organisations by providing insights into the implications of this form of organising for identification and professional identity in a consultancy context. We suggest that identification processes as well as professional identity can be organisationally influenced by providing values that create a culture in which what is considered an appropriate professional identity is expressed and regulated in social interaction and peer dynamics.}},
author = {{Heck, Ricarda Elisabeth and Snijders Blok, Nadine}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The Invisible Hand Guiding the Non-managerial Organisation: A case study about what shapes identification and professional identity in a consultancy firm}},
year = {{2020}},
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