Cross-Context Identity Synthesis: How Employees Integrate Conflicting Social and Organizational Identities in Multinational Teams

Papers like Sanchez Ramirez (2024) highlight national identity transformation through international integration, but what about at the organizational level? This project would study employees embedded in multicultural, multinational teams (e.g., EU project teams, global NGOs, offshore development teams), using qualitative methods to understand how they navigate identity tensions. Do they create hybrid identities, switch between roles, or experience identity fragmentation? How are power and politics negotiated when national or regional identities clash with organizational values or goals? This extends Social Identity Theory’s application (as in Alabi et al., 2023), but in a micro, organizationally embedded, and dynamic cross-cultural context. The novelty is in mapping the process and politics of identity synthesis or conflict at the team level, potentially informing both diversity management and theories of organizational integration.

References:

1. Identity Politics and its Implication on the Nigerian Electoral Process. A. Alabi, Mubarak SulaimanJamiu, Abdulmuthalib Akinkunmi (2023). African Journal of Politics and Administrative Studies.
2. Constructivism and Euro-Atlantic integration perspectives: the case of Montenegro's accession to NATO and the EU. Journal of Law and Politics. Gabriel Enrique Sanchez Ramirez (2024). The Journal of law & politics.