However, three of the eight managers appear to self-identify an emerging leadership identity and demonstrate related managerial practices.
A range of personal, professional and contextual factors influence managerial practice, including professional identity.
We argue that the building of a new collective identity requires specific managerial models to design simultaneously common purposes and collective identity.
Therefore, this paper examines if the degree of CSR-orientation in corporate identity is an important managerial driver of CSR disclosure.
However, although not a requirement for appointment, the three FMs with an apparently stronger leadership identity had some prior managerial experience which they had found helpful, compared with only two of the remaining five managers.
This view allows managerial activities to significantly affect both, corporate identity and image (Gioia et al. 2000).
It is argued that in co-opting peer review for managerial ends, the RAE appeals to traditional academic identities, re-enforcing existing divisions within the academic accounting community and dissipating resistance to its perceived negative effects.
"As the core essence of a company, identity plays a central role in guiding managerial decision-making," says John R. Kimberly, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, who was co-author, with Hamid Bouchikhi, of "The Soul of the Corporation" in 2008.
thinks that Martin-style managerial discipline will strengthen Saks without compromising its strong identity.
We conclude our paper with a discussion of power effects of the rite of passage, how it shapes the identity of managers, and the practice of managerial work in a Big 4 Accounting Firm.
