History as a Source of Organizational Identity Creation

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 1709-1731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Oertel ◽  
Kirsten Thommes
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
East Germany ◽  
The Self ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Rhetorical History ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Identity Creation ◽  
Cluster Level

We analysed the self-representation of twelve watchmaking firms located in a cluster in East Germany to understand how they apply rhetorical history to craft their identity. The findings show that there are common elements of rhetorical history that help organizations craft their identity, but there are also differences based on each firm’s historical background. While some firms specifically relate their identity to their own history, others mainly employ cluster-level history, while still others may even self-construct fictional historical roots. By discussing these findings, we contribute to a better understanding of how an organization’s identity is crafted and how history is utilized in such identity creation.

Three Grades of Social Involvement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Sher
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Social Involvement ◽  
Causal Influence ◽  
Culture History

Communitarians argue that because selves are profoundly influenced by culture, history, and tradition, they are too compromised by society to be morally basic. This chapter asks what this claim means and whether it is true. To find out, it discusses (1) society’s causal influence on people’s aims and attitudes and (2) the fact that many aims and attitudes presuppose a highly specific cultural, legal, and historical background. It also discusses the suggestion that (3) truly autonomous selves would be featureless centers of volition. It concludes that the individual’s moral primacy is undefeated by society’s involvement in the self.

scholarly journals WRITING THE SELF IN RURAL MALI: DOMESTIC ARCHIVES AND GENRES OF PERSONAL WRITING

Africa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Self ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Personal Writing ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Shared Practice ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Local Discourses

ABSTRACTIn a comparative perspective, literacy has been closely associated with techniques of the self and with the emergence of modern subjectivities. But what happens when literacy is developed without genres such as diary keeping being widespread? Scrutinizing grassroots practices, this article demonstrates that even people who are not confronted with established forms of self-writing engage with literacy in ways that bear an imprint of their lives and subjectivities. Drawing on an ethnographic study in one village in southern Mali, it sets a socio-historical background where writing practices arise primarily as responses to the pressure of rural management. Yet the local discourses on the value of writing are suffused with notions of privacy. The article focuses on the unstable but shared practice of keeping a notebook for farming as well personal notations. Through a detailed analysis of two notebooks, it advocates for a set of distinctions between the individual, the private and the self that helps disentangle the issue of writing and self. This leads to a contrasted view of the local engagements with literacy. The question of the crystallization of notebook keeping as a genre remains open.

scholarly journals Literary Perspective in Autobiography: Book "Days" and "My life" Comparison Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 227 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-83
Author(s):  
Assist. Prof. Dr. Eman Abdu-Dakeel Esae ◽  
Lecturer. Dr. Julan Hussian Judy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Background ◽  
The Self ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Comparison Study ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Creative Vision

Autobiography is the written type that related to "I" author, which is relevant to his experience life and written: their worries, affairs, sorrows, and concerns. Hence this study appeared to show how to diagnosis the nature of literary for this type, drawing it's historical background and it's relationship with literary trends in the modern Arabic prose especially the novel, which was nearest to it and most impact in its development, then stand on the denotations type of autobiography, the role of motivation, cultural background, creative vision and the talent in formulating the referential aspect through my book "days" and "my life" the two outcome out the study of comparison which settlement in the field of Arabic autobiography in modern way, telling similar accidents in many times, and telling autobiography of life in different ways that giving a clear picture of comparison through literary perspective then stand on the more accurate literary concept of this writing type about the self, finally we stand on how to draw the literary perspective and determine it in the field of autobiography through managing the most important construction of telling the narrative as an important tool of comparison to diagnosis the literary perspective by studying how to tell and use the voice, the kind of description, it's function of comparison, the measure of availability in choosing text to differentiate the function of the study for these texts which as long as stopped by critics. The study concluded that the literary function of autobiography is unstable in which it is found in one study and absent from another.   

scholarly journals Nation-building in the Scandinavian Welfare State: The Immigration Challenge

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grete Brochmann
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The Self ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Welfare State

Scandinavia represents a particular type of welfare state, characterized by institutionalized social rights, universal access, generous benefits, a high degree of public involvement and comparatively high levels of redistribution. The basically tax-based system, which was designed to constitute a basic safety net for all citizens from cradle to grave, has been remarkably generous – and thereby also costly. It is thus vulnerable in relation to newcomers who cannot support themselves economically. In all of Scandinavia, the welfare state was from the beginning the self-evident instrument for incorporation of newcomers. Gradually, this instrument has turned more controversial, in parallel with general processes of social reform, in which the restructuring of policies has been regarded as necessary in order to avoid dependency traps and “overconsumption”. This article spells out the historical background for the specific Scandinavian approach to immigration, and discusses the current dilemmas attached to this normatively complicated policy field.

The Construction of the Soldier Ideal by Educated Youths

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Yan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Military Training ◽  
The Self ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Military

The fifth chapter studies an often-forgotten depiction of soldiers during the Second Sino-Japanese War: the student soldiers. This chapter first discusses the Campaign to Mobilize Educated Youths to Join the Army to provide a historical background for the GMD’s efforts to militarize educated youths. Xu relays the effects of Chiang Kai-shek’s interest in student soldiers, bringing up Chiang’s wartime diary entries in which he advocated for the military training of students. Xu stresses that the nation-wide conscription of student soldiers during the later years of the Second Sino-Japanese War was a response to both internal and external challenges as the war entered the last phase. Using student soldiers’ own writing, Xu discusses how these educated youths constructed the soldier ideal to advocate the self-government ideal in their army life after they were conscripted into the Youth Army.

Rhetoricians of the past: Rhetorical history and the crafting of organizational identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 15116
Author(s):  
Karin Knorr ◽  
Franziska Hein-Pensel ◽  
Simon Oertel ◽  
Kirsten Thommes
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Rhetorical History ◽  
The Past

CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S «DOLINA ISSY» AS A POETIC STORY OF THE FORMATION OF HUMAN IDENTITY

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Natalia Sydiachenko
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Organic Part ◽  
Identity Creation ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
Poetic Function ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Poetic Vision

In the paper – taking into account general understanding of poetry (poetry is something that is beautiful, sublime, unusual) – the textual structures of the novella that perform a poetic function have been analyzed; besides, the factors that determine the formation of the identity of the protagonist have been spotlighted. The poetic expression of the text, which introduces the developing of the plot into the natural and historical background, has been highlighted. From the poetics point of view, various portraits of heroes have been analyzed: external, psychological, and metaphysical; descriptions of the appearance and behavior of animals, birds, reptiles have been provided. What is more, in the aspect of poetic semantics and connotations, descriptions of landscapes, interiors have been analyzed; narrations about various processes of the ordinary and routine life and objects around the protagonist have been noticed. Poeticism is also represented in such textual structures as reasoning, especially concerning the fundamental issues of life and death. Taking into account the author’s strategy of reproducing the factors of identity creation, the protagonist explores his nature (and the human nature in general) through binary oppositions. Parents, environment, ancestors, history, motherland, and the home place, where he was born and where he grew up have influenced the formation of protagonist’s identity. This last telluric identity factor mostly shapes the peculiarity of Tomas’s worldview, as well as his Creator. Being a story about Lithuania at the beginning of the twentieth century, «The Issa Valley» is the story about true Lithuanian beliefs, customs, myths that existed that time; such senses make the text written in prose, poetic in its essence. Characteristics of the protagonist’s identity have been outlined: he is a person endowed with a talent of poetic vision of the world; he has religion feelings by the way, he also «tasted Manichaean poison»; patriotism rooted in nobility and in his small country – Lithuania. This is a being who becomes an organic part of the mental paradigm an animal – a human being – God.

scholarly journals Struggling with Lack: A Lacanian Perspective on Organizational Identity

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Driver
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
Collective Construction

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on organizational identity by developing a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, the author draws on Lacanian theorizing to explore how organizational identity discourse is informed by imaginary constructions of subjectivity. It is proposed that the collective construction of coherent, unitary, and definably organizational identity discourse is validated by and validates conscious but illusory constructions of the self. The resulting discourse is inevitably disrupted by unconscious subjectivity and invariably fails. Therefore, the collective construction of fragmented, dynamic, and emergent organizational identity discourse is equally inevitable. While such discourse can be illusory, it also contains the opportunity for engaging in liberating struggles with identity as lack. The implications of this perspective for the theory and practice of organizational identity are discussed.

scholarly journals A Descriptive Analysis Of The Self-Similarity Between Terrorism And Cancer

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Krastyu Ivanov Krastev
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Self Similarity ◽  
The Common ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Terrorist Acts

Abstract The objective of this paper is to analyze the characteristic features of terrorist acts and carcinogenic diseases, thus revealing the common elements of these displays. In the process of analysis, these elements could be conducive to establishing the cause- effect relationships. The paper focuses on the description of terrorism in society and the carcinogenic diseases in the human body in their role as destructive factors in the management of complex systems in society and human body.

scholarly journals “A Community College with Ivory Tower Pretensions”: Perceptions of a New University

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-175
Author(s):  
Sierra McKenzie ◽  
Alyson E. King
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Baccalaureate Degree ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Identity Creation ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The University

The ways in which a new university, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), was represented in local, regional, and national newspapers highlight the difficulties of identity creation for organizations. Drawing on theories of organizational identity and supplemented by interviews with UOIT’s founding members, a qualitative analysis of newspaper articles about UOIT published between 2001 and 2004 demonstrates that the words and phrases used in these articles played an important role in establishing an image of UOIT that continues to impact its identity. These news reports also illustrate the complex relationships that existed between UOIT and its geographical, educational, and political contexts. Although UOIT was founded as a four-year baccalaureate degree-granting university, it was linked with its well-established neighbour, Durham College, with which it shared land and services. As a result, UOIT was viewed by some as no more than a “community college with ivory tower pretensions.”  

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