Introduction : how institutions remember -- Data for the study : the MidWest Insurance Company -- Occasions for institutional remembering -- Retold tales : repeated narratives as a resource for institutional remembering -- Multiple versions of MidWest's history -- Three versions of one story : a...

Identity studies focus on how organisations define themselves and what they stand for in relation to internal and external stakeholders. This handbook offers an introduction to the growing field of organisational identity and a broad range of the most important theories and methods for the study...

Conceived as the meanings that individuals attach to their selves, a substantial stockpile of identities-related theorizing, accumulated across the arts, social sciences and humanities over many decades, continues to nourish contemporary research on self-identities in organizations. This...

An understanding of identity is fundamental to a complete understanding of organizational life. 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

IntroductionPart 1: Police Leadership as Practice1. Why a Leadership-As-Practice Perspective?2. What Do Police Leaders Do? 3. When Do Police Leaders Lead? 4. Police Leadership as Practice Part 2: Strategi5. Social Mission, Organizational Structure and Goal Management 6. Strategy as PracticePart...