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...

This paper introduces the concept of liminal hotspots as a specifically psychosocial and sociopsychological type of wicked problem, best addressed in a processtheoretical framework. A liminal hotspot is defined as an occasion characterised by the experience of being trapped in the interstitial dimension between different formsof-process. The paper has two main aims. First, to articulate a nexus...

The purpose of this study was to explore how people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) describe/story experiences of liminality associated with CKD and its treatment. This narrative inquiry was undertaken using secondary data. The people relating the stories described a number of liminal spaces, including living/not living independence/dependence, restrictions/freedom, normal/not normal, worse o...

The project space that develops to enable configuration and implementation of standard software packages is central to the success of creating a working information system. We investigate the IS project environment as a liminal space existing in-between the status quo and the new ES-enabled environment. Our analysis indicates that liminality can be beneficial to cultivate within the project tea...

Cerebral cortical activity associated with perceived visceral sensation represents registration of afferent transduction and cognitive processes related to perception. Abnormalities of gut sensory function can involve either or both of these processes. Cortical registration of subliminal viscerosensory signals represents cerebral cortical activity induced by stimulation of intestinal sensory ne...

The threshold concepts approach to student learning and curriculum design now informs an empirical research base comprising over 170 disciplinary and professional contexts. It draws extensively on the notion of troublesomeness in a ‘liminal’ space of learning. The latter is a transformative state in the process of learning in which there is a reformulation of the learner’s meaning frame and an ...

The term ‘unconference’ is a generic term for a virtual debate between professionals, who are seen as equals regardless of status, culture and nationality. The unconference mode of informal learning has recently been modified by professional educators in a version called a MirandaMod, started in 2007 by members of MirandaNet, a professional organisation founded in 1992. In these events a wide r...

Key users play an essential role in the implementation of enterprise systems (ES), undertaking a great deal of knowledge management. However, this important phenomenon has been largely overlooked by the extant literature. Drawing upon theories on cross boundary knowledge management, this research addresses why key users can facilitate cross boundary knowledge management, and how they do it. Thi...