The turn to identity within management studies has revealed important insights into
management, by recognising its complex, contingent and relational nature, and through …

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 …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and incorporate personal narratives as a
new methodological tool into the qualitative research of complex organisational issues such …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop understanding of the theory of identity-
work and to then deploy this understanding in examining managers' identity-work. These …

Organizational scholars have proposed a broad range of theoretical approaches to the study
of organizational identity. However, empirical studies on the construct have relied on text …

This paper constructs a storytelling framework for understanding how people enact their
subjectivities in organizations. Storytelling is presented as the practical ways in which …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of a dialogical approach,
associated with the Russian literary critic and philosopher Bakhtin, in understanding the …

The narrative turn in organisation studies locates organisations as authors of their own
identities. Organisations in all sectors are talking about values, engaging in ongoing …

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 article examines how frontline managers establish managerial identities. It combines
narrational and Goffmanesque conceptions of managerial identity work in a longitudinal …