Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Free agents on underdog teams: international branch campus lecturers constructing the organizational integration of their individual and campus identities

"Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Free agents on underdog teams: international branch campus lecturers constructing the organizational integration of their individual and campus identities" is structured as follows: Chapter 1: introduction and overview; chapter 2: organizational-integration orientations of locally-hired IBC lecturers: background and exploratory framework; chapter 3: a constructivist grounded-theory approach to researching IBC lecturers’ identity constructions; chapter 4: relating to headquarters coaches: constructing cross-campus coordination relationships; chapter 5: free agents donning team jerseys: IBC lecturers’ layered individual identities; chapter 6: playing for underdog teams: constructing IBC contextual disadvantage; chapter 7: conclusion, contributions and implications of this research.