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 …

Mergers as a type of organizational change call attention to questions of identity. In this
article, the authors ask: How do people collectively reconstitute their group identities for …

The fifth title in an ongoing series on organizational behaviour in health care. This edition
reveals the handling of organizational politics, power and change as a core aspect of …

This paper explores the changing patterns of professional power and the struggle for control
between doctors and managers in the UK NHS, by examining the role of clinical directors …

This paper examines the responses of primary health care clinicians (doctors and nurses) to
an invitation to enterprise contained in a new contract which offers financial rewards for …

The creation of new roles commonly threatens the power and status of elite professionals
through the substitution of their labour. In this paper we examine the institutional work …

Purpose–This paper aims to explore the ways in which practice nurses engage in identity
work in the context of chronic disease management in primary care and assess the extent to …

Professional hybrids are situated between managerial and professional groups, potentially
enabling them to move between different organizational groups. Extant research assumes …

This article examines how individual accountants subjectively interpret competing logics of
professionalism as they transform from practicing accountants to managerial roles and as …