Self Work in Management and Organizational Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-114
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Lawrence ◽  
Nelson Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Work First ◽  
Organization Research

The study of self work is one of the oldest and most developed areas of management and organizational research that focuses on social-symbolic work. This chapter reviews three literatures on self work in management and organization research. For each, it introduces the type of self work, reviews its development in management and organizational research, and explores the implications of studying it as a type of self work. First, the chapter explores how the concept of self work can help organize an extensive and well-developed literature through a discussion of emotion work. Second, it explores how the concept of self work can extend an existing research area by using the example of identity work. Third, it explores how a social-symbolic work perspective can motivate a new stream of literature by examining career work as a form of self work that remains largely unresearched.

scholarly journals Emotions and identity work: Emotions as discursive resources in the constitution of junior professionals’ identities

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 988-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumati Ahuja ◽  
Helena Heizmann ◽  
Stewart Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Professional Service Firms ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Work Strategies ◽  
Work First ◽  
Discursive Resources

For junior professionals, notions of professional identity established during their education are often called into question in the early stages of their professional careers. The workplace gives rise to identity challenges that manifest in significant emotional struggles. However, although extant literature highlights how emotions trigger and accompany identity work, the constitutive role of emotions in identity work is under-researched. In this article, we analyse how junior professionals mobilize emotions as discursive resources for identity work. Drawing on an empirical study of junior architects employed in professional service firms, we examine how professional identities, imbued with varying forms of discipline and agency, are discursively represented. The study makes two contributions to the literature on emotions and identity work. First, we identify three key identity work strategies ( idealizing, reframing and distancing) that are bound up in junior architects’ emotion talk. We suggest that these strategies act simultaneously as a coping mechanism and as a disciplinary force in junior architects’ efforts to constitute themselves as professionals. Second, we argue that identity work may not always lead to the accomplishment of a positive sense of self but can express a sense of disillusionment that leads to the constitution of dejected professional identities.

Positioning Against Other Theories

2010 ◽  
pp. 135-161
Author(s):  
Lars Taxén
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Complex Systems Theory ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Complex Adaptive

Complex systems theory (e.g. Bar-Yam, 1997) is a rich and vital research area that has a huge potential for organizational research (Lewin, 1999). In particular, the study of complex adaptive systems (CASs) provides many insightful results concerning the adaptability and strategic management of organizations in turbulent environments (ibid). In the following, I will take this characterization of CASs as a starting point for exploring possible connections between CAS and ADT. This is done against the background of the previously reported complexity inherent in both telecom systems and projects developing these systems.

Managing Emotional Manhood

2011 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian A. Vaccaro ◽  
Douglas P. Schrock ◽  
Janice M. McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Mixed Martial Arts ◽  
Research Studies

Based on two years of fieldwork and over 100 interviews, we analyze mixed martial arts fighters’ fears, how they managed them, and how they adopted intimidating personas to evoke fear in opponents. We conceptualize this process as “managing emotional manhood,” which refers to emotion management that signifies, in the dramaturgical sense, masculine selves. Our study aims to deepen our understanding of how men’s emotion work is gendered and, more generally, to bring together two lines of research: studies of gendered emotion management and studies of emotional identity work. We further propose that managing emotional manhood is a dynamic and trans-situational process that can be explored in diverse settings.

Comprehensive Exploration of Social Organization Literature in Chinese by Bibliometric Analysis from 1994 to 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-289
Author(s):  
Chen Min ◽  
Liu Yuanhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Research Area ◽  
China National Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Subject Categories ◽  
Organization Research

A bibliometric analysis is applied in this research to evaluate the trends of social organization research between 1994 and 2014 in published Chinese literature of all subject categories from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (cnki) database. Document types, publication patterns, subject categories, journal articles, top cited papers, and long-term distribution of keyword networks are thoroughly examined. Bibliographic information is used to summarize the overall research trends, themes, and academic trajectorys of this research area. The study indicates that over the past 20 years, the development of China’s social organization research has four stages. In addition, both theoretical and practical explorations of China’s social organization research are growing progressively with a shift of research focus from Westernization to localization, from civil society to public service, and from small independent researchers to a discourse system of significant scale.

Organization Work in Management and Organizational Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-187
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Lawrence ◽  
Nelson Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Work ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Focus On Forms ◽  
Work First

Recently, there have emerged in management and organizational research streams of research that are based on a view of organizations compatible with a social-symbolic work perspective and which focus on forms of organization work as defined in this book. This chapter reviews three literatures on organization work in management and organizational research. For each, it introduces the type of organization work, reviews its development in management and organizational research, and explores the implications of studying it as a type of organization work. First it explores strategy work as a form of organization work, the study of which has emerged primarily within management and organizational research. Second, it examines boundary work as a form of organization work, the study of which has emerged primarily in disciplines outside of management and organizational research. Third, it examines technology work as a form of organization work, the study of which is recently emerging in both management and organizational research and other disciplines.

scholarly journals Gesture Analysis and Organizational Research: The Development and Application of a Protocol for Naturalistic Settings

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-171
Author(s):  
Jean S. Clarke ◽  
Nicholas Llewellyn ◽  
Joep Cornelissen ◽  
Rowena Viney
Keyword(s):  
New Venture ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Significant Aspect ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Gesture Analysis ◽  
Disciplinary Field ◽  
Gesture Studies ◽  
Organization Research

Gestures are an underresearched but potentially significant aspect of organizational conduct that is relevant to researchers across a range of theoretical and empirical domains. In engaging the cross-disciplinary field of gesture studies, we develop and apply a protocol for analyzing gestures produced in naturalistic settings during ongoing streams of talk and embodied activity. Analyzing video recordings of entrepreneurial investor pitches, we work through this protocol and demonstrate its usefulness. While doing so, we also explore methodological tensions in gesture studies and draw out methodological arguments as they relate to the analysis of these fleeting and often intricate bodily movements. The article contributes a generally applicable protocol for the analysis of gestures in naturalistic settings, and it assesses the methodological implications of this protocol both for research on entrepreneurship and new venture creation and management and organization research more generally.

scholarly journals Management and Organizational Research: Structural Topic Modeling for a Better Understanding of Theory Application

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Rohit Bhuvaneshwar Mishra ◽  
Hongbing Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Topic Model ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Theory Application ◽  
Theoretical Application ◽  
Structural Topic Modeling ◽  
Structural Topic Model ◽  
Organization Research

In management and organization research, theory development is often linked with developing a new theory. However, regardless of the number of existing theories, most theories remain empirically untested, and the progress in understanding the application of theories has been scarce. This article discusses how theories are applied in existing management and organization research studies. This study applies the Structural Topic Model to 4636 research papers from the S2ORC dataset. The results reveal twelve research themes, establish correlations, and document the evolution of themes over time. The findings of this study reveal that the theoretical application is not consistent across research themes, theories are primarily used for descriptive and communicative properties, and most research themes in management and organization research are more concerned with discovering phenomena rather than with understanding and forecasting them.

Institutional Work in Management and Organizational Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 218-240
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Lawrence ◽  
Nelson Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Work First

Although the study of institutional work developed relatively recently it has inspired a significant body of research investigating how agents purposefully engage with their institutional context in order to create, modify, or disrupting institutions. The focus of that research has, however, remained relatively narrow—oriented around practices and the discursive dimension of institutional work. This chapter examines two types of institutional work. First, it explores practice work as a form of institutional work, the study of which represents a core focus in management and organizational research. Second, it examines category work, the study of which is only emerging in management and organizational research.

Measuring Implicit Processes in Organizational Research

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan A. Bowling ◽  
Russell E. Johnson ◽  
Alex Stajkovic
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Processes ◽  
Organizational Research
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