Considering the crucial role played by organizational identity in organizational life [ 10], our aim in this investigation was to examine the emergent identity of a new primary care group of practice during the first years of its official existence.
On the one hand, this investigation is the only one with an intense presence in the field of Quebec FGMs over a long period of time, and the only one that is examining the emergent identity of these groups of practice in the Quebec health care landscape.
Such a classification covers practices that do not map onto existing or emergent identities.
Identification processes refer to communicative activity by which organizational members adhere to or distance themselves from emergent identities [ 21- 23].
It has also been pointed out that competences, roles and emergent identities complement one another in the process of becoming a physician [ 26].
(Desmond) The focus of the early phase of the entrepreneurial philanthropist's career is nevertheless on business growth and wealth creation, philanthropy being at this juncture an emergent secondary identity complementary to a primary business identity.
Thompson focused on the human stories – the Staffordshire potters, the Manchester Chartists – to build an account of an emergent, proletarian identity.
For centuries Muslims cherished the figure of Jesus, who is honoured in the Qur'an as one of the greatest of the prophets and, in the formative years of Islam, became a constituent part of the emergent Muslim identity.
This has compelled me to focus on diasporic formations, on emergent national identities, and on the politics of representation.
This method takes as its premise the idea that the appearance of new ceramic types and the disappearance of others, signify moments of change due either to incoming practices or internal development, when the social and cultural affiliations of the community of mourners came under question, thus, allowing for the assertion and negotiation of emergent cultural identities.
A breakthrough occurs when actors alight upon (or conceive) the object of their quest in the form of projects targeting specific social objectives that give focus to their emergent self-identities (Dees, 1998; Fiol, 1989; Zahra et al., 2009).
