There is an emergent identity work perspective that draws on multiple intertwined streams of
established identities theorizing and identities-related research. This perspective is …

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

Identities, people's subjectively construed understandings of who they were, are and desire
to become, are implicated in, and thus key to understanding and explaining, almost …

One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search foridentity'. Using the five
theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both arich'discursive resource and a …

A postmodern agenda has surfaced identity as a key concept in the study of human
relations. While psychologists have long been preoccupied with individual identity, now …

Identities scholarship, in particular that focused on self-identities, has burgeoned in recent
years. With dozens of papers on identities in organizations published in this journal by a …

In this paper, I analyse five approaches to identity work–discursive, dramaturgical, symbolic,
socio‐cognitive, and psychodynamic–and show how these are helpful in exploring the ways …

This article provides an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the
research literature. Image refers to the overall idea or conceptualization, capturing how …

Recent research demonstrates the critical importance of identification in organizations (eg,
Albert and Whetten, 1985; Ashforth, Harrison, and Corley, 2008; Ashforth, Joshi, Anand, and …

Organizational identity research has proliferated in recent years, and the core community of
identity scholars has steadily expanded to include institutionalists, ecologists, and strategy …