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Le Département de systèmes d’information organisationnels vous invite à une présentation de la professeure Marie-Claude Boudreau qui portera sur son article Where We Work Matters: Professionals’ Responses to Identity Threats in a Digital Workplace.

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Where We Work Matters: Professionals’ Responses to Identity Threats in a Digital Workplace

As digital disruptions prompt changes to our physical work environments, the role of place in shaping professional identity negotiations becomes increasingly important. Through an inductive qualitative case study, we investigated how professionals revised their identity when they transitioned to a new digital workplace devoid of salient physical identity markers. With the loss of physical cues, these professionals experienced threats to their professional distinctiveness and purpose and engaged in a dynamic process of responding to these identity threats by invoking defensive and adaptive coping responses. Underlying this process was the influence of their legacy place dependence and attachment, i.e., how much they relied on and were emotionally attached to their legacy workplace, to define who they are and what they do in their new digital workplace. We develop a process model and propositions to theorize the role of place in influencing how professionals shifted their responses to identity threats over time depending on the strength of their legacy place dependence and place attachment.