The purpose of this research is to explore the processes and strategies through which members of a group or organization use their organizational identity to make salient a normatively dissonant identity. Using both the functionalist perspectives of social identity theory and the existing narrative literature on identity formation in organizations, a conceptual process model of identity formation is created that integrates the identification process with the interaction of multiple identities, including the identity as members of an organization, a normatively dissonant identity, and other salient preexisting identities such as race and gender. This research also examined part of this conceptual model empirically, using members of a national running organization for Black women, Black Girls Run!, using a mixed-methods design including interviews and surveys of participants. Distance running, as a form of physical activity, is not a normative identity for Black women in the United States. Findings from Study 1 showed that members developed a running identity that informed their running behavior. Study 2 highlighted the process through which members used their identity as members of the organization to negotiate through their dissonance and become runners using modeling strategies. Findings from this study contribute to both sport management and organizational literature by empirically demonstrating the effects of and the processes through which an organizational identity might create a pathway for marginalized groups to adapt previously dissonant identities. It highlights the importance of organizational identities in the formation of deeper connections with physical activity, which has been shown to be an essential element of health maintenance and a conduit for sustainable active behaviors. / Tourism and Sport

No / Poststructuralist accounts of organizations understand them as flows, as verbs in process of always-becoming. Subjects who work `in' organizations are similarly always in a process of becoming. Organization and members are mutually constitutive, each enfolded within the other. The process by which each is enfolded within and constituted by the other is what is explored in this essai. Its aim is to analyse something of the becoming-ness of organizations/selves, in which the researcher-self is imbricated in this becoming-ness and must therefore be part of that which is studied. To achieve this aim I draw on Lacan's concepts: of the mirror stage, or how I am in an agonistic relationship with the other; Nachträglichkeit or the reliving of the past in the present (deferred action); and identification. I apply these concepts to an interview I, an academic, carried out with a manager, emphasizing the importance of these organizational identities in our encounter with each other. The conclusion I reach is that the organization I am `in' is at the same time `in' me: there is no inside and no outside.

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.

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.

On aurait pu s'attendre à ce que la politique de subvention préférentielle (SEP), de 2008, contribue à l'égalité de chances des « élèves prioritaires ». Cependant, ces principes politiques se sont heurtés à plusieurs obstacles de l'ordre idéologique, pragmatique et structurel. La continuité des pratiques sélectives dans le secteur privé subventionné a été expliquée, par le faible pouvoir coercitif de la loi ou par les logiques de ce secteur d'enseignement. Mais, derrière cette assertion que se passe-t-il réellement ? Dans un monde à multiples références à quelles logiques répondent les établissements ? À la différence des travaux normatifs déjà produits sur cette question, cette thèse propose d'interroger la réalité de certains de ces établissements, explorant comment la politique a été traduite, arrangée et accommodée à partir des justifications et des pratiques des acteurs. Cette approche invite à repenser l'intention volontariste que sous-entend la recherche sur les politiques éducatives. Celle-ci n'a que peu conceptualisé le pouvoir de négociation de l'établissement scolaire face à l'action publique. Nous avons réalisé une analyse descriptive des sept établissements privés subventionnés sous l'angle de leurs identités. Tenant compte de leurs logiques d'action, nous avons reconstitué les processus d'appropriation de la politique SEP que nous décrivons selon deux régimes d'action. Selon un « régime de justice », nous abordons les accords et désaccords construits localement, autour de la « priorité scolaire » ce qui montre dans certains cas, la tension entre identité organisationnelle et logiques de la politique, décelant une conception libérale du bien commun. Selon un « régime de justesse », nous décrivons les traductions de la politique en termes concrets, au travers de la description d'actions, qui par ailleurs, se révèlent moins focalisées sur les « élèves prioritaires » que sur l'unité établissement. Ces deux dimensions décèlent le processus de changement d'un système scolaire fragmenté qui s'apprête à implémenter une nouvelle réforme nationale d'inclusion sociale. / The preferential subsidy policy, as of 2008, was expected to contribute to equal opportunities for "priority students". however, these political principles have encountered several obstacles of the ideological, pragmatic and structural order. the continuity of the selective practices in the particular subsidized sector was explained by the little coercive effect of the law or of the logics in this educational sector. but behind this really happening statement? in a world with multiple references to what logics respond establishments? unlike normative works that have already studied this subject, our thesis proposes to interrogate the reality of certain establishments, exploring how politics has been translated, adapted and installed in the speeches and in the practices of the actors. this approach invites us to reconsider the voluntariness implied by research on education policy, which has little conceptualized the bargaining power of the school in the face of public action. A descriptive analysis of the seven subsidized private schools was carried out in terms of their identities. taking into account their logic of action, we have reconstructed the process of appropriation of sep policy that will be described according to two regimes of action. according to a "regime of justice" (or justification), agreements and disagreements built locally around the "take off priority" are discussed, which in some cases show the tension between the organization's identity and the logic of politics, showing a liberal conception of the common good. according to a "regime of fairness" (or routine) the translations of the policy are described in concrete terms, through the description of actions, which also seem to be less focused on "priority" students than on the establishment unit . these two dimensions show the process of change of a fragmented school system that is implementing a national reform of social inclusion.