Recent work contends that management education provides an important space for
managers' identity work. However, it is also recognised that much of what is currently offered …

Taking a managerial position involves not only taking on managerial tasks and
responsibilities but also developing an identity as manager. Recent work on manager …

The aim of this article is to review a selection of the literature on identity at work in
Management and Organization Studies (MOS) in order to raise critical questions concerning …

So many to thank… and so little space… First and foremost I want to thank my supervisor
Sten Jönsson. Early in my research education I heard Sten present his own research and he …

Modern managers might well ask 'who are we and what are we becoming'? Two decades of
downsizing, delayering, corporate liposuction, lean manufacturing, empowerment …

Debates on the impact of management ideas tend to assume a mechanistic view of
knowledge with its value or threat conceived of in terms of the extent to which it is directly …

The original call for this special issue on identities and organizations focused on processes
and outcomes, both of which deserve more sustained investigation and offer the potential to …

Introduction beings embedded in organizational contexts. For us, identity loosely refers to
subjective meanings and experience, to our ongoing efforts to address the twin …

The contribution of MBA study to managers' work has been increasingly questioned, in
particular the relevance of the curriculum and the transfer of MBA knowledge and skills into …

'Identities'(organizational managerial, professional and occupational) are currently a key
focus for research in management and organization studies (Alvesson, Ashcraft & Thomas …