Understanding how, why, and when individuals create particular self‐meanings has
preoccupied scholars for decades, leading to an explosion of research on identity work. We …

Work identity and identification have generated a great deal of interest in the fields of
organizational psychology and organizational behavior. Given several theoretical …

As creative industries begin to experiment with service and subscriptions models, prior
research suggests that such changes in production and consumption carry important …

Interactions between work and identities are an important topic as a result of their influence
on both employees' well-being and organizational performance. However, there is a lack of …

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

Increasing numbers of studies are identifying 'identity work'in research participants' efforts to
establish, maintain, deny or change the identity positions being ascribed to self and other …

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 …

In this article, we explore what happens in professional formation when the locus of its
meaning, as it has been formed, is increasingly contradicted by professional practice …

This paper explores identity work in the creative setting of an opera company. We focus on
how people account for who they are and what they do as they go through the process of …

Organizational studies of collective identity tend to describe how identities are discursively
enacted through claims of a group's uniqueness and the articulation of distinctions between …