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Identities and Identity Work in Organizations
- A. Brown
- Sociology
- 1 January 2015
Identities, people's subjectively construed understandings of who they were, are and desire to become, are implicated in, and thus key to understanding and explaining, almost everything that happens… Expand
A Narrative Approach to Collective Identities
- A. Brown
- Sociology
- 12 June 2006
From a narrative perspective, organizations' identities are discursive (linguistic) constructs constituted by the multiple identity-relevant narratives that their participants author about them, and… Expand
Narratives of Organizational Identity and Identification: A Case Study of Hegemony and Resistance
- M. Humphreys, A. Brown
- Sociology
- 1 May 2002
This paper focuses on issues of identity and identification in a UK-based institution of higher education (Westville' Institute). It is suggested that identity, both individual and collective, and… Expand
Narcissism, Identity, And Legitimacy
- A. Brown
- Sociology
- 1 July 1997
The theory of narcissism can be employed usefully to analyze the dynamics of group and organizational behavior. Just as individuals seek to regulate their self-esteem through such ego-defense… Expand
Overview of the SpiNNaker System Architecture
- S. Furber, D. Lester, +4 authors A. Brown
- Computer Science
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- 1 December 2013
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Narrative, Politics and Legitimacy in an IT Implimentation
- A. Brown
- Sociology
- 1998
This paper offers an interpretation of an information technology (IT) implementation through an analysis of group narratives. A focus on narrative is valuable because it facilitates recognition of… Expand
Organizational Identity and Learning: A Psychodynamic Perspective
- A. Brown, K. Starkey
- Psychology
- 2000
Organizations are prone to ego defenses, such as denial, rationalization, idealization, fantasy, and symbolization, that maintain collective self-esteem and the continuity of existing identity. These… Expand
Making Sense of Inquiry Sensemaking
- A. Brown
- Sociology
- 16 December 2002
This paper presents a discourse analysis of a report of a tribunal of inquiry in order to further our understanding of inquiry team sensemaking. The subject of the paper is the report of the Allitt… Expand
A Narratological Approach to Understanding Processes of Organizing in a UK Hospital
This article outlines a narratological approach to understanding how middle managers and senior managers in a UK National Health Service (NHS) hospital made sense of the introduction of a series of… Expand
Narrative, Organizations and Research
- Carl Rhodes, A. Brown
- Sociology
- 1 September 2005
Given the rapid expansion of narrative approaches in management and organization theory in recent years, this paper investigates the contribution of this literature to the understanding of… Expand