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

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 …

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 …

Women continue to be under-represented in senior positions in universities and their
relative absence from the top jobs in management and business schools remains a cause …

Elite professionals opportunistically employ threats to their work identities to author preferred
selves. Predicated on understandings that identities are subjectively available to people as …

This paper analyses how the preferred self-conceptions of men in an elite military unit—the
British Parachute Regiment—were disciplined by the organizationally based discursive …

This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten
of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk …

Dis-identification is now an important research area in organization studies investigating
how employees subjectively distance themselves from managerial domination by …

Affect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into
new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with …

Society needs whistleblowers, yet to speak up and expose wrongdoing often results in
professional and personal ruin. Kate Kenny draws on the stories of whistleblowers to explain …