For junior professionals, notions of professional identity established during their education
are often called into question in the early stages of their professional careers. The workplace …

Identity Work within and beyond the Professions: Toward a Theoretical Integration and
Extension Page 1 Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Management Faculty …

Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article
an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change …

This article explores how we make sense of identity in situations of dynamic complexity. It
contributes to debates on how dynamic complexity, conceived as periods of heightened …

How are organizational discourses enacted by people at work? In this article, instead of
treating subjects as somewhat distinct from such discourses, I argue that the two are …

This chapter addresses professional identity in the workplace. The relevance of the topic
derives from current trends in working life, in which constant changes require continuous …

In this article, we analyse the principal antagonistic discourses on which managers in a
large UK-based engineering company drew in their efforts to construct versions of their …

This thesis examines the practices, resources and constraints of identity work in
unpredictable career transitions. It aims to problematize individualistic views of career …

This study investigated the enactment of professional agency in an emotionally troubled
work context emerging from a conflicted relationship between the professional and the work …

Purpose–The purpose of the article is to illuminate micro‐processes and dynamics of
identity work in an academic working context. It elaborates on the various and shifting self …