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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Managing and adapting organizational identity : A qualitative case study using a strategy-as-practice perspective to investigate an IT consultant organization

Loggert, Josefin, Åhlin, Mairon January 2016 (has links)
Evolution of IT has resulted in fundamental changes in society, changes that have affected the IT consultant industry and introduced challenges in how IT consultant organizations should adapt to a new, turbulent market. In order to investigate these challenges this study set out to understand the organizational identity of IT consultant organizations, aiming to address the following research question: How do IT consultant organizations manage and adapt their organizational identity? To answer this question a qualitative single case study has been conducted using Whittington’s integrated framework for strategy-as-practice as a theoretical framework. The results show that the case organization of this study manages and adapts their organizational identity by adjusting its work procedures to the new market as well as their role in the relationship with customers. The results also indicate that the case organization manages and adapts their organizational identity by balancing the identity established by headquarter and the identity set by themselves in regard to their local context. These results demonstrate the possibilities of multiple organizational identities within an organization.
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The Locked-In Identity? : A case study of the management of multiple organizational identities in a dependent partner organization / Den Instängda Identiteten?

Alm, Sofia January 2020 (has links)
For decades´ researchers as well as business managers have deliberated on the matter of what constitutes an organization´s core and identity. This paper investigates the management of multiple identities in a dependent partner organization, defined as an organization with products or services dependent on, and/or with a business derived from, a mother organization´s products or services. For managers, managing organizational identity on organizations with an increasing part of their business value dependent on partnering with another organization, this becomes a question of managing multiple identities. As an aid for managers in determining the relevant managerial response, Pratt and Foreman developed a framework classifying four different responses, presented in an article in the year 2000.  However, in limmiting the scope of their research to not include an organization´s perception of the identity of the external network in which it resides, the framework is not sufficient for managers of a dependent partner organization.  The current research has analyzed and further developed how the managerial response framework for multiple identities could be used in such a dependent partner organizational setting. The perception of how a mother organization is reflected in a dependent partner organization identity is investigated through interviews ina single case study at a specigic type of dependent partner organization, namely a dealer organization. The analysis of the data was deductive, based on the theoretical construct of organizational identity, and followed a theoretical thematic analysis methodology. The findings from the research reveal how different perceptions of the mother organization is reflected in every criterion of the dependent partner´s organizational identities. Also, results show how these organizations are high in synegry, as the mother organization creates a standard frame of reference for all units of the dependent partner. The results further develop the managerial framework by Pratt and Foreman for such an organizational setting by syggesting two responses from the framework as particularly suitable. For managers of a dependent partner organization the risk of the high presence of the mother organization in the own organizational identity is also coupled with decreased member identification. To manage this, it is suggested to engage in internal employee education and activities. Furthermore, an increased focus on fostering a strong leadership, capable of consciously managing the constant construction of organizational identity in the blurred lines between the partner and the mother organization, is needed. Due to the positioning of organizational identity as a constructed in the interaction between two parts, social constructionism is further suggested to be an appropriate epistemological view when studying the dependent partner organization. / I årtionden har akademiker och chefer brottats med nfrågan om vad som är en organisations kärna och identitet. Denna uppsats undersöker hanteringen av multipla identiteter i en beroende partnerorganisation, här definierad som en organisation vars produkter eller tjänster är beroende av, och/eller sprunget från, en moderorganisations produkter eller tjänster. Hanteringen av en organisations identitet är en del av chefens huvudsakliga syfte och i organisationer där grundaffären alltmer beror av en partnerorganisation blir detta en fråga om att hantera multipla identiteter. Pratt och Foreman presenterade i en artikel år 2000 ett ramverk för chefer som klassificerar fyra olika responser i hanteringen av multipla identiteter. Studien är dock avgränsad till att inte innefatta organisationers uppfattning om identiteten av det externa nätverk inom vilken organisation är en del, i den egna organisatoriska identiteten. Denna avgränsning gör ramverket otillräckligt för chefers bedömning av hanteringen av multipla identiteter i beroende partnerorganisatoriska.  Den nuvarande studien har analyserat och vidareutvecklat ramverket för hantering av multipla identiteter utifrån den beroende partnerorganisationens position. Hur moderorganisationen  uppfattas och reflekteras i den beroende partnerorganisationens i dentitet har undersökts genom  intervjuer i en enfallsstudie hos en specifik typ av beroende!partnerorganisation, nämligen en återförsäljare. Analysen av data har varit!deduktiv, baserad på teorin om vad!som utgör en organisatorisk identitet, och har följt en teoretisk tematisk analysmetod.  Resultaten från studien visar hur uppfattningar om moderorganisationen reflekteras i varje kriterium av den beroende partnerorganisationens identitet och hur dessa typer av organisationer har möjlighet till höga synergieffekter, som en följd av att moderorganisationen skapar en gemensam gruns att stå på. Resultaten leder till en vidareutveckling av Pratt och Foremans ramverk för hanteringen av multipla identiteter genom att föreslå två av responserna som mer anpassade för den specifika organisationstypen. För chefer i en beroende partnerorganisation är risken med den starka närvaron av moderorganisationen i den egna identiteten att medlemsidentifieringen misnkar. För att hantera detta föreslås att bygga upp en intern utbildning samt uppmuntra interna aktiviteter. Det föreslås också att fokusera på att fostra ett starkt ledarskap som är kapabelt atill att medvetet hantera den konstanta konstruktionen av den egna organisatoriska identiteten i gråzonen mellan moderorganisationen och den beroende partnerorganisationen. Vidare är också scocialkonstruktionismen identifierad att vara en lämplig epistemologisk ståndpunkt vid studien av en beroende partnerorganisation, givet att den organisatoriska identiteten konstrueras i relation till en annan part.

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