An interpretative framework for analysing managerial ideology, normative control, organizational culture and the self

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Table 1. Interpretative framework reflecting research questions, concepts and key scholars

	Research question	Interpretative concepts of framework	Key scholars
Part A	What is the organization’s managerial ideology, who are the sources of ideological influence, and what forms of normative control are adopted as reflected by the integrationist perspective of the organization’s culture?	Managerial ideology; normative control; organizational culture from the integrationist perspective	Geertz (1973); Lukes (1975); Barley and Kunda (1992); Kunda and Ailon-Souday (2009); Kiaos (2022)
	What are the prominent characteristics of the organization’s integrationist culture that affect everyday work such as the organization’s values, rules and rituals from the perspective of the organization’s membership groups?	Organizational culture from the integrationist perspective, including values, rules, rites and rituals; presentation rituals; and organisational membership groups	Van Maanen (1979); Meyerson and Martin (1987); Van Maanen and Kunda (1989); Schein (1990); EH Schein (1991); Kunda (2006); Kunda and Ailon-Souday (2009)
Part B	What subcultural and microcultural characteristics are identified from the differentiation perspective?	Subcultures; microcultures; organizational culture from the differentiation perspective	Martin and Siehl (1983); Meyerson and Martin (1987); Kondo (1990); Kunda and Ailon-Souday (2009); Kiaos (2022)
	How does the organization’s culture reflect ambiguity from the fragmentation perspective and under what transient and context specific circumstances are these made evident?	Cultural fragmentation and evidence of ambiguity	Martin and Siehl (1983); Meyerson and Martin (1987); Martin (2001)
Part C	How does the nature of language and behavioural displays change when employees traverse the dominant culture from the integrationist perspective, subcultures and microcultures from the differentiation perspective, and under conditions of cultural ambiguity?	Sites of enactment: Front stage scenes; front stage encounters; and front stage relationships	Goffman (1959); Kiaos (2022)
		Sites of enactment: Back stage scenes; back stage encounters; and back stage relationships	Goffman (1959); Kiaos (2022)
Part D	What interpretations can be made concerning the subjective experiences of employees under various cultural conditions?	Subjective experiences of employees	Freud (1963); Goffman (1983)

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