Knowledge Work: Ambiguity, Image and Identity

By Mats Alvesson. 2001

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Financialization in the workplace: Hegemonic narratives, performative interventions and the angry knowledge worker (2013, background): “This paper studies a knowledge intensive firm (KIF) where ‘most of the work is said to be of an intellectual nature and where well-educated, qualified employees form the major part of the work force’ (Alvesson, 2001: 863).”
Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities (2015, background): “Assessing competence and work quality is difficult in professional service work, and firms consequently may evaluate people based on perceptions of their identities (Alvesson 2001, Rivera 2012).”
Education, Globalisation and the Future of the Knowledge Economy (2008, background): “As Alvesson (2001) has suggested: the ambiguity of knowledge and the work of knowledge-intensive companies means that ‘knowledge’, ‘expertise’ and ‘solving problems’ to a large degree become matters of belief, impressions and negotiations of meaning.”
What Is a Professional Service Firm? Toward a Theory and Taxonomy of Knowledge-Intensive Firms (2010, neutral): “One manifestation is the social and personal characteristics of the firm’s employees, since those are things clients can observe and evaluate (Alvesson, 2001; Empson, 2001b; Lowendahl, 2000; Starbuck, 1992).”
Relationship between leadership styles and dimensions of employee organizational commitment: a critical review and discussion of future directions (2014, background): “Moreover, organizational commitment has been linked to increased knowledge sharing (Alvesson, 2001), increased organizational citizenship behaviours (Meyer et al., 2002; Riketta, 2002), better organizational performance (Ricketta, 2002; Meyer et al., 1989), reduced absenteeism (Eby, Freeman, Rush &…”
Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach (2014, background): “approaches to identity differ in many important respects (Alvesson et al., 2008). Erikson (1968) observed that “the more one writes about this subject [i.”
Systematically reviewing remote e-workers’ well-being at work: a multidimensional approach (2018, background): “It should be noted that the differentiation between knowledge workers and non-knowledge workers is debatable, as researchers suggest that all types of work involve some level of “knowledge” (Alvesson, 2001).”
Out of the Box? How Managing a Subordinate’s Multiple Identities Affects the Quality of a Manager-Subordinate Relationship (2015, neutral): “…relationship (e.g., Adler & Kwon, 2002; Alvesson, 2004; Cropanzano & Mitchell, 2005; Liden & Graen, 1980; Tsui et al., 1997) including role-related knowledge (Alvesson, 2001, 2004) and social capital (Adler & Kwon, 2002) for support and trust (e.g., Cropanzano & Mitchell, 2005; Tsui et al., 1997).”
Identity Workspaces: The Case of Business Schools (2010, background): “Scholars argue that the shift has been most salient in the middle ranks of organizations (Osterman, 1999) and in the faster-moving sectors of the knowledge economy (Alvesson, 2001; Sennett, 2006).”
The Autonomy Paradox: The Implications of Mobile Email Devices for Knowledge Professionals (2013, neutral): “Reputations, appearances, and relationships become proxies for competency and worth (Alvesson 2001; Alvesson and Willmott 2002; Covaleski et al. 1998).”
Identity work in organizations and occupations: Definitions, theories, and pathways forward (2018, background): “varying levels of compliance with or resistance to discourses in the context of power inequities (Alvesson, 2001; Alvesson & Willmott, 2002; Anteby, 2008; Boussebaa & Brown, 2017).”