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Interlevel Influences on the Reconstruction of Professional Role Identity
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Research on roles and identities generally represents a micro perspective that does not account for the reconstruction of professional role identity, owing to insufficient attention to institutional forces. We trace institutional influences on professional role identity reconstruction and extend theory by building bridges across institutional, organizational, and individual levels of analysis. Findings indicate that agentic reconstruction of professional role identity is enabled and constrained by an institutional environment that provides interpretive, legitimating, and material resources that professionals adopt and adapt. Institutional forces also impact organizational arrangements that further influence microlevel agency. We elaborate interactions among these three levels of analysis.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chreim, S., Williams, B. E. (., & Hinings, C. R. (.
- Affiliations
- University of Lethbridge (CA)
- ORCID
- Chreim, Samia
- Venue
- Academy of Management Journal
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 2007-12
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1515-1539
- ISSN
- 0001-4273 (ISSN-L)
- 1948-0989
- OpenAlex
- W2164866741
- Cited by
- 443
- References
- 81
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 20
- FWCI
- 17.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Academy of Management Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Education, sociology, and vocational training
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- professional role identity, identity reconstruction, institutional forces, institutional environment, organizational arrangements, multilevel analysis, material resources
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