Patrizia Hoyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 73401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrizia Hoyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrizia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoyer |
| SIGNATURE | HOYER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5599-9606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cosmopolitanism as an Aspirational Identity: When Normative Ideals Give Rise to Identity Struggles
While cosmopolitanism is often celebrated for its contemporary ideals of openness toward people from different cultural backgrounds, this paper reveals how and why these same ideals can generate tensions and identity struggles when rigidly applied in everyday cross-cultural encounters. Based on 32 life story interviews with globally mobile professionals who have worked and lived extensively across different countries, we observed and analyzed how…
When freedom and control walk hand in hand: Friendship in the Workplace
Purpose While workplace friendship is often idealized in the literature as well as in practice, this paper problematizes the uncritical endorsement of the phenomenon by drawing attention to its inherent power implications. Design/methodology/approach Empirically, the paper is based on a three-month ethnography in an organization which encourages workplace friendship at work by deliberately blurring boundaries between work and non-work. Findings W…
The anatomy of clinical decision-making: Aligning AI design with ICU routines
PurposeIn the face of numerous explanations for why AI-driven decision support systems (DSS) have failed to deliver on their promise of improving organizational decision-making, this paper problematizes the under-theorized mismatch between the design of DSS and the actual decision-making processes that the technology is supposed to support. We examine this mismatch by studying the implementation of a DSS in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a larg…
To be, or not to be elite, that is the question: The unresolved identity struggles of ex-consultants
While previous studies have framed the construction of elite identities in the context of prestigious organizations as unambiguous, this paper investigates elite identities across different contexts as potentially contested and tension-ridden, due to both positive and negative societal connotations with elitism. Based on 36 interviews with ex-consultants, the paper indicates how people engage with an elite discourse in multiple ways when reportin…
After Herzog: Blurring Fact and Fiction in Visual Organizational Ethnography
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the unique artistic approach of film-maker Werner Herzog as an inspiration to rethink ethnographic studies in general and the notion of reflexivity in particular.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews the particularities of Werner Herzog's approach to filmmaking, linking them to the methodological tradition of visual ethnography and especially the debate about the role of reflexivity and per…
Narrative identity construction in times of career change: Taking note of unconscious desires
Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change, incorporating the notion of unconscious desires. We propose that frictions in career change narratives, such as the paradoxical co-existence of coherence and ambiguity, allude to unconscious subtexts that can become ‘readable’ in the narrative when applying a psychoanalyt…
Narrative identity construction in times of career change: Taking note of unconscious desires
Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change, incorporating the notion of unconscious desires. We propose that frictions in career change narratives, such as the paradoxical co-existence of coherence and ambiguity, allude to unconscious subtexts that can become ‘readable’ in the narrative when applying a psychoanalyt…
After Herzog: Blurring Fact and Fiction in Visual Organizational Ethnography
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the unique artistic approach of film-maker Werner Herzog as an inspiration to rethink ethnographic studies in general and the notion of reflexivity in particular.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews the particularities of Werner Herzog's approach to filmmaking, linking them to the methodological tradition of visual ethnography and especially the debate about the role of reflexivity and per…
Narrative identity construction in times of career change: Taking note of unconscious desires
Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change, incorporating the notion of unconscious desires. We propose that frictions in career change narratives, such as the paradoxical co-existence of coherence and ambiguity, allude to unconscious subtexts that can become ‘readable’ in the narrative when applying a psychoanalyt…
After Herzog: Blurring Fact and Fiction in Visual Organizational Ethnography
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the unique artistic approach of film-maker Werner Herzog as an inspiration to rethink ethnographic studies in general and the notion of reflexivity in particular.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews the particularities of Werner Herzog's approach to filmmaking, linking them to the methodological tradition of visual ethnography and especially the debate about the role of reflexivity and per…
To be, or not to be elite, that is the question: The unresolved identity struggles of ex-consultants
While previous studies have framed the construction of elite identities in the context of prestigious organizations as unambiguous, this paper investigates elite identities across different contexts as potentially contested and tension-ridden, due to both positive and negative societal connotations with elitism. Based on 36 interviews with ex-consultants, the paper indicates how people engage with an elite discourse in multiple ways when reportin…
The anatomy of clinical decision-making: Aligning AI design with ICU routines
PurposeIn the face of numerous explanations for why AI-driven decision support systems (DSS) have failed to deliver on their promise of improving organizational decision-making, this paper problematizes the under-theorized mismatch between the design of DSS and the actual decision-making processes that the technology is supposed to support. We examine this mismatch by studying the implementation of a DSS in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a larg…
When freedom and control walk hand in hand: Friendship in the Workplace
Purpose While workplace friendship is often idealized in the literature as well as in practice, this paper problematizes the uncritical endorsement of the phenomenon by drawing attention to its inherent power implications. Design/methodology/approach Empirically, the paper is based on a three-month ethnography in an organization which encourages workplace friendship at work by deliberately blurring boundaries between work and non-work. Findings W…
Cosmopolitanism as an Aspirational Identity: When Normative Ideals Give Rise to Identity Struggles
While cosmopolitanism is often celebrated for its contemporary ideals of openness toward people from different cultural backgrounds, this paper reveals how and why these same ideals can generate tensions and identity struggles when rigidly applied in everyday cross-cultural encounters. Based on 32 life story interviews with globally mobile professionals who have worked and lived extensively across different countries, we observed and analyzed how…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Conceptualization (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works)