Achieving Collaborative Aims through Multiple Identity Construction: Managing a public inter-organizational collaboration

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Isidora Kourti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Multiple Identity ◽  
Organizational Collaboration

Although public inter-organizational collaborations can offer better public services, their management is a complex endeavour and they often fail. This paper explores identity construction as a key aspect that assists in managing successfully these collaborations. The study draws upon a longitudinal ethnographic study with a Greek public inter-organizational collaboration. The research illustrates that managers should encourage partners to construct collaborative and non-collaborative identities in order to achieve the collaboration aims. It also suggests that managers should seek both stability and change in the collaborative process and offers four collaborative patterns for the effective management of public inter-organizational collaborations.

scholarly journals A Bridge to Portugal: Language and Identity in Bridgeport, CT

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Fabio Scetti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
American English ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Status

Here I present the results of BridgePORT, an ethnographic study I carried out in 2018 within the Portuguese community of Bridgeport, CT (USA). I describe language use and representation among Portuguese speakers within the community, and I investigate the integration of these speakers into the dominant American English speech community. Through my fieldwork, I observe mixing practices in day-to-day interaction, while I also consider the evolution of the Portuguese language in light of language contact and speakers’ discourse as this relates to ideologies about the status of Portuguese within the community. My findings rely on questionnaires, participant observation of verbal interaction, and semi-structured interviews. My aim is to show how verbal practice shapes the process of identity construction and how ideas of linguistic “purity” mediate the maintenance of a link to Portugal and Portuguese identity.

Cosmopolitan English, traditional Japanese

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Baudinette
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
English Language ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Japanese Men ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Queer Space

Abstract The Linguistic Landscape of Tokyo’s premier gay district, Shinjuku Ni-chōme, contains much English-language signage. Previously described in touristic literature as marking out spaces for foreign gay men, this article draws upon an ethnographic study of how signage produces queer space in Japan to argue that English instead constructs a sense of cosmopolitan worldliness. The ethnography also reveals that participants within Ni-chōme’s gay bar sub-culture contrast this cosmopolitan identity with a “traditional” identity indexed by Japanese-language signage. In exploring how Japanese men navigate Ni-chōme’s signage, this article deploys Piller and Takahashi’s (2006) notion of “language desire” to investigate the role of LL in influencing individual queer men’s sense(s) of self. This article thus broadens the focus of LL research to account for how engagement with an LL may impact identity construction, with an emphasis placed on how learning to “read” an LL influences the formation of sexual identities.

Divorce: a visual essay

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Norris ◽  
Andrea Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Year 2000

AbstractThis visual essay incorporates poetry and paintings, telling a narrative about the stages of divorce that Andrea (retrospectively) experienced. The stages developed through this project were not lived as such, but rather are an analysis of past lived experience. The paintings, which were produced in 2011 embed poems that were written around the year 2000 during an ethnographic study on identity construction (Norris, 2011) in which Andrea was one of the participants. Back then, the researcher used poetry to jot down emotions of participants and other difficult-to-describe aspects encountered during ethnographic fieldwork. This year, we revisited the poems that came about because of Andrea’s divorce at the time, and illustrate our findings in this essay.

scholarly journals Protecting Foreign Investments in Public Services: Regulatory Stability at Any Cost?

Global Jurist ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Costamagna
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Regulatory Change ◽  
Large Network ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Treatment Standard ◽  
Equitable Treatment

AbstractThe article addresses the tension between regulatory stability and regulatory change within the international regime for the protection of foreign investments. The work focuses on public services, a sector where striking a balance between stability and change has been highly problematic. In this context, modifications of the regulatory framework may substantially affect the profitability of investments that normally presuppose large network infrastructures. On the other hand, adapting the regulatory framework to ever-changing social needs is crucial to pursue fundamental social purposes. The article deals with this tension through the prism of the fair and equitable treatment standard and the protection of investors’ legitimate expectations. The analysis shows that there has been an evolution in the arbitral practice, but that there is still considerable uncertainty on key aspects. The paper proposes the adoption of an interpretive approach that can help ease the tension between stability and change.

scholarly journals THE EFFICIENCY OF MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVES PLANNING TO SUPPORT SANITARY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF POPULATION AND DEFENSE OF RIGHTS OF CONSUMERS IN THE FEDERAL SUBJECT

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 241-249
Author(s):  
G. M. Gaydarov ◽  
Tat'yana I. Alekseevskaya ◽  
O. Iu. Sofronov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Management By Objectives ◽  
Federal Subject ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article analyzes efficiency of management by objectives planning in supporting sanitary epidemiological well-being of population and defense of rights of consumers in the subject of the Russian Federation. Within the framework of this analysis a characteristic is given concerning supporting sanitary epidemiological well-being of population and defense of rights of consumers according sectoral target programs in the subject of the Russian Federation. The results of analysis of social economic efficiency of management by objectives are presented. The sociological survey is implemented concerning issues of quality and accessibility of public services provided by Rospotrebnadzor and effective management of sanitary epidemiological well-being of population. The originally elaborated technique of evaluation of efficiency of management by objectives is presented within the framework of achieving strategic targets of Rospotrebnadzor in the subject of the Russian Federation.

“Foreign Locals”: Transnationalism, Expatriates, and Surfer Identity in Costa Rica

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay E. Usher
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Transnational Communities ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Mobile Population ◽  
Attachment To Place ◽  
Strong Attachment

Surfer identity construction has been linked to a number of factors, including a strong attachment to place. Surfers have always been a mobile population, and the search for waves in new places is a central aspect of the sport. The movement of surfers has led to the development of transnational communities in surf destinations. This ethnographic study examined the ways in which expatriates in Costa Rica construct their identities as local surfers. Many expatriates considered themselves local surfers as a result of the time they had lived and surfed in Pavones and their knowledge of the wave. Many Ticos did not think of expatriates as local surfers. Some expatriates’ assertions of local identity and resultant aggression were sources of frustration for Ticos, tourists, and other expatriates.

scholarly journals Linguistic Identity Construction of Shina Speakers: An Ethnographic Study

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (III) ◽  
pp. 278-283
Author(s):  
Shamim Ara Shams ◽  
Zia Ul Haq Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Formal Context ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
At Home

The present research intends to investigate the linguistic identity construction of Shina speakers in different contexts. The objective of the study is to study the pure Shina identity and to see how language use varies according to context. An ethnographic study was conducted to find out how Shina speakers construct their linguistic identities in different contexts. The sample for this research was purposive which included multilingual Shina speakers and the data was collected through interviews. The data was analyzed using Markedness Model by Myers- Scotton (1993). The findings of the study revealed that multilingual Shina speakers construct their linguistic identity in their interaction through code- switching and code mixing. It was found that a pure Shina identity is constructed at home and in close circles whereas a hybrid identity is constructed at the work place and formal context.

scholarly journals EXPLORING TEACHERS’ REACTION TO THE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OF IRANIAN STUDENTS IN EFL CONTEXT

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Saeed Ghaniabadi ◽  
Hamid Reza Hashemi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Grounded Theory Research ◽  
Multiple Identity ◽  
Core Category ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Iranian Students ◽  
Theory Research

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2179460X19425The substantial achievements of the current research in the field of teaching English as a foreign language highlight the monumental influence of students’ identity construction on acquiring a foreign language. Due to the dearth of qualitative research that probe teachers’ awareness of the learners’ identity construction in classroom-oriented discourse and their reaction to it, the present study is to develop a systematic explanatory theory of those aspects of EFL learners’ identity disregarded by teachers in Iranian EFL context. This grounded theory research is founded upon the volunteer and theoretical sampling of 8 under-achieving learners from Azad university of Birjand, Iran. In-depth semi-structural interviews which took three weeks were employed by the researchers. The data collection and analysis procedure occurred between January and February, 2015. The iterative process of analysis yielded teachers’ failure to acknowledge the learners’ multiple identity as the core category that pulled together three other sub-categories including 1) the ignorance of imaginative identity of the students by teaches 2) teachers’ disregard of the multiple and dynamic identity of the learners in educational context 3) teachers’ lack of awareness from students contradictory identification with the culture of target language speakers. The results of this study are almost novel and of great significance for Iranian EFL teachers and other practitioners in this field.

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