2,372 research outputs found
Organizational identity and legitimacy under major environmental changes : tales of two UK building societies
No full textWe studied how organizational identity (OI) and organizational legitimacy (OL) interplayed within two British building societies during drastic environmental changes over two decades. Four salient phases of environmental changes were identified in the British building society sector over the last two decades (introduction of new regulatory framework, recession, demutualization threats and post-demutualization era). Comparative analysis of the two firms' responses to the environmental changes found that, employing distinct specific strategies, both firms accorded tremendous attention and efforts to OI narration and re-narration in order to regain OL. Four properties were identified regarding the interplay between OI narrative and OL: level, locus, mechanism and approach. Our study contributes to the literature by (a) empirically demonstrating the role of the OI/OL interplay in understanding the relationship between organizations and external changes; (b) empirically demonstrating the valence of a narrative approach to OI as a useful perspective to study organizational change and OL; and (c) identifying the role of narrative in leading and directing such changes
'I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT films’: An Interview with He Xiaopei
Full text linkDespite decriminalization in 1997 and partial pathologization in 2001, homosexuality remains a sensitive topic in contemporary China. This is reflected in mainstream and online media where representation of LGBTQ-related issues are often subject to heavy censorship. However, despite the austere restrictions that exist, the past two decades have witnessed the emergence of “‘new queer Chinese cinema”’ (Leung 2012; Yue 2012; Pecic 2016; Bao 2018). Led by a number of young independent queer filmmakers along with advancements in new media technologies, this underground movement of queer filmmaking have has created new possibilities for imagining sexuality and gender as well as opportunities for community -building.He Xiaopei is a leading queer feminist filmmaker, activist, and director of Beijing-based NGO Pink Space, an NGO dedicated to promoting sexual rights and gender equality. Her films include The Lucky One (Chong’er, 2012), Our Marriages: Lesbians Marry Gay Men (Yisheng qiyuan, 2013), Yvo and Chrissy (Ruci Shenghuo, 2017) and Playmates (Wanban, 2019). The Lucky One tells the story of Zhang Xi, a HIV- positive woman with only a short time to live. A kind of video diary of Zhang’s life, the film questions notions of fact and fiction, as well as the politics of representation when working with marginalized people. Our Marriages: Lesbians Marry Gay Men explores how two lesbian couples in Northeast China negotiate norms and expectations around marriage, and the possibilities for queer life in Chinese society. Yvo and Chrissy follows the lives of two people from England who gave up an inheritance of one million pounds as well as several properties, and reflects on questions of wealth, gender, sexuality, and happiness. He’s work to date has demonstrated a distinctly antinormative approach to gender and sexuality, while also highlighting some of the less discussed issues of class, precarity, and marginality in China and elsewhere.In February 2017, Séagh Kehoe, PhD candidate from the University of Nottingham, spoke with He about her work and the place of documentary filmmaking in queer activism in China today
Transforming organizational identity under institutional change
No full textPurpose – The objective of this paper is to report a case study investigating how organizational identity evolves during institutional change within a UK building society.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs an inductive case study, which is appropriate for examining such change processes. It builds on grounded theory, considered appropriate for such an explanatory research.
Findings – The paper finds that: institutional change, especially regulation and practice changes, serves as the trigger to increasing salience of identity issues, i.e. identity ambiguity, legitimacy crisis and perceived identity obsolescence; leadership, organizational culture and strategic exercises are salient apparatuses to tackle identity problems caused by external pressure; and a new identity is formed as a result of the managerial interventions, characterised by the rediscovery of historical roots, modernization and dualism.
Research limitations/implications – The paper provides an account of identity change, given a broader business environment change context within which the organization operates. Utilizing qualitative study of one case may be taken as a limitation.
Originality/value – The theoretical contribution reflected in the findings has implications for the interfaces between identity and institutional environment and organizational culture
Modeling team knowledge sharing and team flexibility : the role of within-team competition
Full text linkThis study examines the role of within-team competition (i.e. team hypercompetition and team development competition) in a team process. We developed and tested a model that associates team collectivism as the antecedent of within-team competition, and knowledge sharing and team flexibility as the outcomes. The model was empirically tested with data from 141 knowledge-intensive teams. The empirical findings showed that team collectivism had a positive relationship with team development competition and a negative relationship with team hypercompetition. Regarding the outcomes, team development competition and team hypercompetition had an indirect relationship with knowledge sharing and team flexibility through team empowerment. We offer a number of original contributions to the team effectiveness literature, especially by showing that team hypercompetition and team development competition have different impacts on team knowledge sharing and team flexibility
The effect of team affective tone on team performance : the roles of team identification and team cooperation
Full text linkAffective tones abound in work teams. Drawing on the affect infusion model and social identity theory, this study proposes that team affective tone is related to team performance indirectly through team identification and team cooperation. Data from 141 hybrid-virtual teams drawn from high-tech companies in Taiwan generally supported our model. Specifically, positive affective tone is positively associated – while negative affective tone is negatively associated – with both team identification and team cooperation, team identification is positively associated with team cooperation, and team cooperation is positively associated with team performance. Managerial implications and limitations are discussed
Molecular phylogenetic analysis of theAmiota apodemataandAmiota sinuataspecies groups (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with descriptions of four new species
No full textZhao, Feng, Xu, Xiaoyang, Jiang, Jianjun, He, Xiaofang, Chen, Hongwei (2013): Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Amiota apodemata and Amiota sinuata species groups (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with descriptions of four new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (4): 849-858, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12043, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.1204
Figure 26 in Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
No full textFigure 26. Neighbor-joining tree based on the concatenated DNA sequences.Published as part of He, Xiaofang, Gao, Jianjun, Cao, Huazhi, Zhang, Xiaolei & Chen, Hongwei, 2009, Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae), pp. 359-372 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00516.x, http://zenodo.org/record/468781
Figure 29 in Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
No full textFigure 29. Bayesian tree based on the concatenated DNA sequences.Published as part of He, Xiaofang, Gao, Jianjun, Cao, Huazhi, Zhang, Xiaolei & Chen, Hongwei, 2009, Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae), pp. 359-372 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (2) on page 371, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00516.x, http://zenodo.org/record/468781
Figure 27 in Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
No full textFigure 27. Single maximum parsimony tree based on the concatenated DNA sequences (tree length = 831, consistency index = 0.7714, retention index = 0.7497).Published as part of He, Xiaofang, Gao, Jianjun, Cao, Huazhi, Zhang, Xiaolei & Chen, Hongwei, 2009, Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae), pp. 359-372 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00516.x, http://zenodo.org/record/468781
Figure 26 in Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
No full textFigure 26. Neighbor-joining tree based on the concatenated DNA sequences.Published as part of <i>He, Xiaofang, Gao, Jianjun, Cao, Huazhi, Zhang, Xiaolei & Chen, Hongwei, 2009, Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae), pp. 359-372 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (2)</i> on page 370, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00516.x, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10114798">http://zenodo.org/record/10114798</a>
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