Identity, Institutions, and New Work Roles
The Case of a Green Field Automotive Factory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4991078 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerardo Patriotta (0000-0002-3933-7407, Nottingham University Business School), Giovan Francesco Lanzara (University of Bologna) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 987-999 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764205285180 |
| OpenAlex | W2018463836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 17 |
In this article, the authors draw on institutional theories of organizations to account for the dynamics that shape workers' agency and identity during the construction and the operation of a green field automotive factory. Based on a detailed field study, they try to understand the mechanisms that first led to the rise and institutionalization of a specific model of workers' identity and then caused its subsequent, largely unexpected, collapse. In addressing the link between identity and institutions, the case emphasizes the regulative and constitutive influences of institutions, the role of sense making and cognitive processes in shaping workers' agency and identity, and the factors leading to the erosion of established institutional practices
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Factory (object-oriented programming) · Field (mathematics) · Identity (music) · Identity formation · Institutional theory · Institutionalisation · Political science · Public relations · Self-concept · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Culture and International Alliance Negotiations
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Sensemaking in Organizations
The emergence of the university
A Return to the Enduring Features of Institutions
Fight for meaning. Representations and work experiences in a greenfield automotive plant
Categorization and identification
Sensemaking in organizations
Labor and monopoly capital
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
The Antecedents of Deinstitutionalization
Why are institutions the ‘carriers of history’?
The Embeddedness of Organizations
Identity Regulation as Organizational Control
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Modernity and Self-Identity
Culture in Action
Culture and Cognition
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |