The paper discusses collectivity in an organizational context. Collectivity refers to the interface between the social and the cultural. It is a social ’unit’, but it is defined through the meanings, definitions and distinctions of the people involved. The paper addresses cultural and...

The study is a case study of managerial identity work, based on an in-depth case of a senior manager and the organizational context in which she works. The paper addresses the interplay between organizational discourses, role expectations, narrative self-identity and identity work. Identity is...

Despite the great interest in organizational identity, empirical studies are relatively rare. As yet, there have been no major comparative case studies of this phenomenon. Single case studies have yielded in-depth understanding of the process of identity construction in specific organizations,...

Increasing attention is being given to professional services in organisation and management theory. Whether the focus is on organisational forms or service processes such as knowledge transfer, the role of clients is often seen as central. However, typically, clients continue to be presented in...

This paper develops some ideas about personnel concepts, defined as basic conceptualizations of the idealtypical employees and the linkage between these and companies. Personnel concepts provice starting and anchoring points for the recruitment, development and retainment of employees and for...

The paper addresses the formation of moral consciousness in organizations. In particular, it focus to what extent and how organizational arrangements encourage and/or prohibit the development and exercise of moral judgement among newspaper professionals. The paper draws empirically from a case...

Based on a case study of managers in a large, international knowledge-intensive company this paper suggests a rethinking of leadership, taking the mundane, almost trivial, aspects of what managers/leaders actually do seriously. In the study interviewed managers emphasized the importance of...