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Beyond dis-identification: A discursive approach to self-alienation in contemporary organizations

Jana Costas and Peter FlemingView all authors and affiliations
Volume 62, Issue 3
https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726708101041

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Dis-identification is now an important research area in organization studies investigating how employees subjectively distance themselves from managerial domination by constructing identities considered more `authentic'. But how should we understand situations where actors become aware that their putative`real' selves are paradoxically unreal and foreign? We draw inspiration from the concept of self-alienation to explain experiences beyond dis-identification, where actors perceive the truth of themselves (`who I really am') as alien. An empirical study of a global management consultancy firm demonstrates how a discursive and non-essentialist understanding of self-alienation might usefully capture this experience of identity. Three causes of self-alienation are proposed and we discuss their significance in relation to identity and authenticity in contemporary organizations.

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Pages: 353 - 378
Article first published online: March 1, 2009
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  1. authenticity
  2. discourse
  3. dis-identification
  4. imaginary
  5. narrative
  6. power

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