Staying the Same: Organizational Identity Endurance as a Subjectivation Process
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Until now, organizational scholarship has mainly focused on the processes of organizational identity change, while identity endurance still remains under-explored. This paper seeks to address this gap by unravelling the organizational identity meaning struggles that go on between organizational members on a daily basis. Drawing on Foucault’s concepts of discursive practices and subjectivity, it illustrates how particular understandings of identity become naturalized as the organization’s hegemonic self. We have conducted an ethnographic study of the Cinematheque quebecoise, an organization recognized for its enduring identity. The analysis reveals that members attempt to preserve their organization’s identity by engaging in discursive practices that have power effects on their peers’ subjectivity. Through self-victimization, recontextualization, and disciplinarization, members legitimize their behaviours in a way that is consistent with the current interpretation of the organizational identity. Such discursive practices can exert control over meaning construction, and over time, are likely to contribute to the endurance of organizational identity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".