Abstract
Recent literature on hybridity has provided useful insights into how professionals have responded to changing institutional logics. Our focus is on how shifting logics have shaped senior medical professionals’ identity motives and identity work in a qualitative study of hospital consultants in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. We found a binary divide between a large category of traditionalist doctors who reject shifting logics, and a much smaller category of incorporated consultants who broadly accept shifting logics and advocate change, with little evidence of significant ambivalence or temporary identity ‘fixes’ associated with liminality. By developing a new inductively generated framework, we show how the identity motives and identity work of these two categories of doctors differ significantly. We explore the underlying causes of these differences, and the implications they hold for theory and practice in medical professionalism, medical professional leadership and healthcare reform.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1477–1499 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Organization Studies (OS) |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 9 |
Early online date | 24 Jan 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2021 |
Keywords
- doctors’ professional identities
- hybrid organizations
- identity motives
- identity work
- senior professionals
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management of Technology and Innovation
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Strategy and Management