Objective To associate the territory of identity with the production of care within a PCC focusing on children and adolescents with drug abuse and their institutional identity. Method We used the " process tracing methodology" in four research categories: focus groups, characterization of professionals, observing the everyday and interviewing two members of emblematic cases of the service. Resu...

Global strategic alliances have become a major research topic within all areas of management research. However, existing studies focus on performance rather than on partner search and selection; and even the research on partner selection does not analyze the situation of an “existing” global strategic alliance evaluating potential new members. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we s...

On the basis of ethnographic and historical material this article makes a comparative analysis of the relationship between public events, ceremonies and academic rituals, institutional identity, and processes of transition and power at two universities, one in Mexico and the other in South Africa. The public events examined here play a major role in imagining and bringing about political shifts...

Establishing and maintaining institutional identity is a challenge for leaders in Catholic health care. A process known as "progressive articulation" can be used to help leaders assess how well their organizations reflect Catholic social tradition and help them apply this tradition toward specific organizational practices. The particular approach described here is called the "Identity Inquiry a...

Using a case study of health information systems (HIS) in Kenya, we seek to better understand how HIS afford or constrain the action of local actors in provisioning health care in developing countries. We developed a theoretical perspective based on institutional theory that served as a lens to interpret the relationship between institutions and users’ perceptions of IT constraints and affordan...

We examined the interactive effects of ethnic identification (EI) and race-based rejection sensitivity (RS-race) on institutional outcomes among African American college students. We distinguished between effects on institutional identification on the one hand and academic goal pursuit (e.g., staying in school, grade point average [GPA]) on the other. Supporting the utility of this distinction,...

This article uses James Paul Gee’s distinction between acquisition and learning to consider the context of GED tutoring in a correctional facility. It draws on the notion of performance, as defined in Judith Butler’s work and in queer theory, to consider the ways that literacy and identity are performed in the space of the prison. Arguing that Butler’s broader definition of performance, while h...

The objectives of this historical-social study are: to describe the circumstances that determined the participation of North American nurses in the formation of the Brazilian nurse; and analyse the process of implementing institutional rituals as a strategy of symbolic fight, to confer visibility to the nurse profession and discuss the symbolic effects of institutional rituals for the consecrat...

The perception of childhood as a period of dependence and innocence has a long history. Being strongly associated with the Romantic Movement of eighteenth-century Europe it resonates with more recent Western theories of child development, ideas about child rearing and policies relating to the care and education of children. The advent of a global society, however, demands that we examine and re...

Interest in faculty careers decreases as graduate training progresses; however, the process underlying career-interest formation remains poorly defined. To better understand this process and whether/how it differs across social identity (i.e., race/ethnicity, gender), we conducted focus groups with 38 biomedical scientists who received PhDs between 2006 and 2011, including 23 women and 18 indiv...