Table 4.

Organizational aspects of the changing identities

SubclusterFindingsAuthor(s), year
Image within the organization…and stereotypes influence identity, role change and self-conceptFriedman and Lyne (2001), Järvinen (2009), Pierce and O’Dea (2003), Sathe (1983), Taylor and Scapens (2016) 
 … is low when MAs are compared to other professionalsEmsley (2005), Friedman and Lyne (2001), Pierce and O’Dea (2003) 
 … influences MAs’ identification with the organization and the professionHiller et al. (2014) 
 … is constitutive of MAs’ identityLambert and Pezet (2011) 
Contingency factorsCompany size determines the scope of MAs’ professionde Loo et al. (2011), Joshi and Bremser (2004), Mistry et al. (2014), Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2019) 
 Other factors such as capital market orientation, ownership, industries, organizational level of MA function, contextual uncertainty and the use of the budgetary systemAver and Cadez (2009), de Loo et al. (2011), Hartmann and Maas (2011), Joshi and Bremser (2004), Yazdifar et al. (2008) 
 … do not preclude very homogeneous discourse of MAs about their occupation, values and general orientationAhrens and Chapman (2000), Goretzki and Messner (2019), Morales (2019) 
 Financial distress of organizations can increase importance of MAsCooper (1996), de Loo et al. (2011), Endenich (2014) 
Information systems and digitalization… are actively developed and implemented by MAsKaye (1988) 
… effect changes in MAs’ roles, identities and interactions stylesAlbu et al. (2011), Azan and Bollecker (2011), Baldvinsdottir et al. (2009), Byrne and Pierce (2007), Järvenpää (2007), Jack and Kholeif (2008), Caglio (2003), Granlund and Malmi (2002), Horton and de Araujo Wanderley (2018), Kaye (1988), Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2019), Scapens and Jazayeri (2003), Suhaimi et al. (2016), Yazdifar and Tsamenyi (2005), Yazdifar et al. (2008) 
  
 … can lead to devaluation of MAs if relied on too intensivelyHeinzelmann (2018), Jack and Kholeif (2008) 
 … are solely an opportunity for changesGranlund and Malmi (2002), Järvenpää (2007), Scapens and Jazayeri (2003) 
   
Patterns of interaction… influence identities and rolesAhrens and Chapman (2000), Baldvinsdottir (2009), Goretzki and Messner (2019) 
 … between MAs and managers are especially decisiveByrne and Pierce (2018), Mouritsen (1996), Lambert and Sponem (2012), Windeck et al. (2015) 
 … result in tensions and difficultiesAmilin (2017), Byrne and Pierce (2007), Byrne and Pierce (2018), Edwards et al. (1995), Morales and Lambert (2013), ten Rouwelaar et al. (2018) 
 … would benefit from a mutual understanding of business partnering but is impaired by different attributed meaningsByrne and Pierce (2007), Goretzki and Messner (2019), Karlsson et al. (2019b), Lambert and Sponem (2012), Morales (2019) 
Decentralization and nested identity… influence values and interactions, thus identity or roleGoretzki et al. (2013), Granlund and Lukka (1998), Järvenpää (2007), Lambert and Sponem (2012), Pierce and O’Dea (2003), Vaivio (2004), Järvenpää (2007), ten Rouwelaar et al. (2018) 
 … make MAs identify stronger with their workgroups than with occupational groupHorton and de Araujo Wanderley (2018), Lambert and Sponem (2012), Taylor and Scapens (2016) 

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