Understanding identity and organizations

Kenny, K., Whittle, Andrea ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-7403 and Willmott, Hugh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-7041 2011. Understanding identity and organizations. London: SAGE.

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Abstract

An understanding of identity is fundamental to a complete understanding of organizational life. While conventional management textbooks nod to in-groups, cohesion and discrimination, this text offers instead a deeper, more nuanced understanding of why people, groups and organizations behave the way they do. With conceptions of identity perhaps less stable than they have ever been, the authors make complex theoretical issues accessible to the reader through the use of lively examples from popular culture. The authors present an overview of the key issues, as well as an examination of cutting-edge research and topical forces currently redefining identity, such as globalisation, the fair trade movement and online identities. This text is a succinct, relevant and exciting overview of the field of identity studies as it relates to business and management and applied social sciences, an is an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of management on any course that has an identity component.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Publisher:	SAGE
ISBN:	9781848606791
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:52
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/38125

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