In response to calls for research on the ways in which management accountants make sense of their professional identities organisational disruptions, this paper explores identity work during a merger. Drawing case study merger between two Dutch banks, examines as they found themselves liminal state – i.e. “betwixt and between” workplace identities. The identifies types Inside-out was process ne...

BACKGROUND Professional identity, or how a doctor thinks of himself or herself as a doctor, is considered to be as critical to medical education as the acquisition of skills and knowledge relevant to patient care. SUMMARY This article examines contemporary literature on the development of professional identity within medicine. Relevant theories of identity construction are explored and their ...

In today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. Mean while, Mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among Islamic cities of Iran In recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central part of...

Psychological ownership is rarely considered in health discourse related to chronic illness or disease state. Construction of identity is an important consideration within this framework. This autoethnographic study explores psychological ownership and identity related to prostate cancer and chronic illness. Conclusions about the nature of psychological ownership and identity were gathered from...

Identity development is a highly salient task for adolescents, especially those from immigrant backgrounds, yet longitudinal research that tracks simultaneous change in ethnic identity and American identity over time has been limited. With a focus on 177 Asian American adolescents recruited from an emerging immigrant community, in the current study, we used hierarchical linear modeling and foun...

This paper describes the first construction of efficient identity-based broadcast encryption (IBBE) schemes which can be proved secure against adaptive-identity attacks based on standard assumptions. The constructions are obtained by extending the currently known most efficient identity-based encryption scheme proposed by Jutla and Roy in 2013. Ciphertext size and user storage compare favourabl...