Encountering the Arugula Leaf: The Failure of the Imaginary and its Implications for Research on Identity in Organizations
基于精神分析视角，指出当前组织身份研究重复了将身份视为连贯或碎片化的想象建构，并提出将身份视为缺失可动摇这些建构，进而探讨想象身份建构的失败如何与组织中的抵抗和控制相关，为身份研究提供新方向。
The article reviews research on identity in organizations. It suggests that current research reiterates imaginary constructions of identity by which identity can be defined as coherent or fragmented. Based on a psychoanalytic understanding of subjectivity, it explores how articulating identity as lack may unsettle such imaginary constructions. The article develops the significant implications this has for how identity is conceptualized and researched and, importantly, how the failure of imaginary identity constructions relates to resistance and control in organizations. The article provides new directions for the study of identity in organizations particularly with respect to widening the discursive spaces in which creative identity struggles occur.