Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age: The Dynamics of Identity Formation and Bonding

by Koot, Willem; Leisink, Peter; Verweel, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781843760658
• ISBN10: 1843760657
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
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Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age: An Introduction	1	(20)
Willem Koot
Peter Leisink
Paul Verweel
PART I THE FRAMING OF ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Commitment and Community in Organizations	21	(24)
Jan Boessenkool
Peter Leisink
Paul Verweel
The Performative Nature of Identification: Modes of Management and Actors at Work	45	(22)
Hans Siebers
Jeroen Vermeulen
The Critical Edge of Individualization: About the `Culturing' of Service Delivery and the Performance of Privacy	67	(22)
Marja Gastelaars
Ideology, Consensus and Organizational Effectiveness in a Fragmenting Society: Western Combatants in the Second World War	89	(24)
Keith Grint
PART II PERSONAL COPING STRATEGIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL ACTORS
Management as a Dead End: How Managers Survive in a Culturally Complex Environment	113	(24)
Frans Kamsteeg
Willem Koot
The Discursive Constructions of Performing Professionals	137	(22)
Tom Keenoy
Identity Creation in Temporary and Scattered Work Practices in a Relational Perspective	159	(20)
David Metz
Ann Westenholz
Identity Construction and Commitments of Graphic Designers	179	(24)
Ellen van Wijk
PART III SHIFTING INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND IDENTITY FORMATION
The Construction of Identity in a Fragmenting Telecom Operator	203	(20)
Alfons van Marrewijk
Identities and Relationships in the Theatre of the Dotcom Industries	223	(22)
Marcel Veenswijk
Changing Identities of European Farmers	245	(20)
Marjoleine Hennis
Biotechnology: The Production of New Identities	265	(26)
Guido Ruivenkamp
Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age: A Concluding Analysis	291	(16)
Willem Koot
Peter Leisink
Paul Verweel
Paul Jeffcutt
Index	307