Engineering identity in a Japanese factory

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kilduff, M; Funk, JL; Mehra, A
• 署名单位: Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.8.6.579
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 579-592
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY; Japanese organizations; high technology organizations; SENSEMAKING; ALIENATION; ENACTMENT

摘要

This is a most unusual paper. It is based on 11 months of ethnographic studies in a Japanese high-technology company. It investigates the structuring process of identity creation in organization. The authors painstakingly detail how the technologies of production, routinization and spatial order combine into daily mutual dependencies, joint sensemaking and the formation of an intense social order to the exclusion of other obligations. The findings have important implications for team based organizations and for the maintenance of a collective identity beyond the control of the individual.