Emergent identity work and institutional change: : the 'quiet' revolution of japanese middle-class housewives

• Autores: Aegean Leung, Charlene Zietsma, Ana Maria Peredo
• Localización: Organization studies, ISSN 0170-8406, Vol. 35, Nº 3, 2014, págs. 423-450
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • How do relatively low-power, role-constrained actors break through their constraints in a highly institutionalized environment? Examining the experience of Japanese middle-class housewives involved in a social enterprise, we developed a model of emergent identity work which outlines how actors who enacted their role values in new domains triggered a process of learning and sensemaking which led to spiralling cycles of role boundary expansion. In this process, facilitated by an enabling collective, actors not only changed their own self-concept (internal identity work) but also, through external identity work, changed others� conceptions of their institutionally prescribed roles.