Organizational Identity Struggles and Reconstruction During Organizational Change: Narratives as symbolic, emotional and practical glue
研究医院新设急症科室时，护士和管理者如何通过叙事构建和争夺合法组织身份，揭示身份的时间性、具身性和社会性，对理解组织变革中的身份动态有参考价值。
The article offers a novel perspective on the formation of organizational identity (OI) during major organizational change. The empirical context of our studies is the establishment of a new acute care department and the reorganization of care, where nurses and managers struggle to construct and reclaim a legitimate identity within the hospital and simultaneously strive to gain a leading position among acute care departments in the country. We use Bourdieu’s theoretical ideas combined with a focus on narratives as an original and fertile perspective for studying OI. We propose that OI is inherently temporal, embodied and socially configured and cannot be separated from the institutionalized context of its setting because it is interlaced with (in this case) health professional logics. We show how OI is constructed through the strategizing moves of managers and nurses. This includes their narrative constructions of their quest for care progression and a legitimate OI that function as symbolic, emotional and practical glue.