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Considering international assignments as part of an individual’s career, beyond the traditional expatriate assignment …
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Considering international assignments as part of an individual’s career, beyond the traditional expatriate assignment …
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similarities and differences between repeat expatriates and international itinerants in their career paths, subjective experiences … interviews were conducted with ten repeat expatriates and ten international itinerants. The career paths of the 20 Swedish global … global careerists. These domains are the organization and career domain, the country and culture domain, and the family …
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Identity construction (IC) cannot be reduced to discourses, nor to individual responsibility. Alvesson & Wilmott (2002) suggest two main processes of identity construction : identity regulation (IR, the discursive practices of identity definition) and identity work (IW, the interpretive...
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Constructions of institutional identities are necessary when assessing children¡¯s needs and making intervention decisions. To be able to make holistic descriptions of children¡¯s identities, social workers have to listen to children¡¯s perceptions of themselves and their surroundings. In...
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In a small business context, the importance of relationship marketing has not attracted much academic attention. This study explores the discursive resources on which small business owner-managers draw, when making sense of business to business (B2B) relationships and networks and constructing...
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As firms are creating and recreating themselves as stakeholder corporations, tensions mount between a firm’s fiduciary duties to its shareholders and the broader responsibilities inherent in a stakeholder focus. Firms have employed several techniques to help resolve this tension with limited...
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In contemporary western society, questions of identity concerning "who am I?" and "how should I act?" (Alvesson, 2000: 1105) are now a central concern in people's lives. Indeed, the western, liquidly modern context (Bauman 2000; 2001; 2003; 2005; Bauman & Haugaard 2008; Bauman & Tester 2001) is characterized,...
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Identity construction (IC) cannot be reduced to discourses, nor to individual responsibility. Alvesson & Wilmott (2002) suggest two main processes of identity construction : identity regulation (IR, the discursive practices of identity definition) and identity work (IW, the interpretive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073688
This doctoral thesis examines Robert’s (1991) conceptualization of accountability in conflicting situations. In organizational contexts, individuals give account in two ways; at a distance, to show that their actions are aligned with the main goals of the company – hierarchical...
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