Role theories examine how individual behavior is shaped by prevailing social roles and
provide insights into how behavior is perceived by others in light of such roles. Current …

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 …

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 …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 143–152 Context The clinical workplace in which doctors learn
involves many social groups, including representatives of different professions, clinical …

This paper examines leadership in practice, specifically the interaction of leaders and
followers, taking account of context (Spillane, JP (2006). Distributed Leadership. San …

Identities scholarship, in particular that focused on self-identities, has burgeoned in recent
years. With dozens of papers on identities in organizations published in this journal by a …

Our study examines brokering of situated knowledge within an organizational context,
characterized by professional hierarchy. We examine how professional affiliation and …

In this essay, we explore and discuss current practices of source critique. In our empirical
analysis of a sample of interview-based studies, we find that few studies show a careful and …

Context: One of health care's foremost challenges is the achievement of integration and
collaboration among the groups providing care. Yet this fundamentally group‐related issue …

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