Managing Identity

1. Front Matter

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2. Managing Identity

   • Alison Pullen

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3. Restructuring Middle Management

   • Alison Pullen

   Pages 14-30

4. Management in Three Movements: Theorizing Middle Managers’ Subjectivities

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   Pages 31-52

5. Rewriting Power and Gender Into the Management of Meaning and the Meaning of Management

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   Pages 53-67

6. “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”: Hierarchy and Networking in Carlux

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   Pages 68-111

7. Seduction in Nylons

   • Alison Pullen

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8. “Why Not Take All of Me?”: Achievement & Commitment in Larts

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   Pages 147-163

9. Disrupted Identities in a Still-Organized World

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10. Back Matter

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Downsizing, delayering, corporate liposuction, lean manufacturing, empowerment, knowledge management and networked organization have shaken traditional assumptions about management to their foundations. Postmodern conditions have fragmented established identity resources and created a crisis of managerial self-confidence. Drawing on detailed qualitative studies and theory on gender and power to explore the impact of recent changes on managers' identities and their responses in constructing new and multiple identities, Managing Identity develops much needed models for evaluating shifts from modern to postmodern management and new managerial subjectivities.

• knowledge management
• management
• Manager
• organization
• organizations

ALISON PULLEN is Senior Lecturer in Critical Management and Director of the PhD programme in the Department of Management Studies at the University of York, UK. She has previously worked at the Universities of Durham, Essex and Leicester. Her books include Identity and Organization and Thinking Organization (both edited with Stephen Linstead, Routledge 2005). She has published in several journals on issues of identity, gender, organizational change and poststructuralist feminism, and is an Associate Editor of Gender, Work and Organization.

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