The present study explored the multiple identities held by health professionals in a large
public hospital that was experiencing organizational change that involved the transition from …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate how clinicians' professional background
influences their transition into the managerial role and identity as clinical managers …

Recent reform of the healthcare sector in New Zealand involved the corporatization of public
hospitals, and the contractualization of social relations between and within institutions …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to help answer two persistent calls in the literature:
the first asks to strengthen the understanding of medical collaboration across levels of …

This field study considers the implications of the symbolic and material nature of physician
identity for communication with patients. In-depth interviews of physicians across multiple …

Purpose–Recognition of the importance and difficulty of engaging physicians in
organisational change has sparked an explosion of literature. The social identity approach …

Identity is presumed to reveal key elements of individuals or groups. The term can be used
in many different ways and to depict various levels of analysis, such as personal, national …

This article presents and discusses the findings of a recent study on the professional
identities of middle managers in a school of healthcare in a selected Chartered (pre-1992) …

Although identity research in organizations has increased in recent years, none of the
current perspectives has examined the role of emotion for understanding how individuals …

This in-depth qualitative research examines the interplay between medicine and
management. It focuses on the reasons why doctors do not always implement administrative …