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 …

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

A growing body of leadership literature focuses on leader and follower identity dynamics,
levels, processes of development and outcomes. Despite the importance of the phenomena …

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 …

It is widely accepted that the conflict between women's family obligations and professional
jobs' long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this …

We report the results of an ethnographic study of a natural food cooperative in which we
found an inherent tension in its mission between idealism and pragmatism, and we explore …

I review the empirical literature on leadership, focusing on papers published since 2010. To
do so, I introduce a framework composed of two features: whether theories (a) involve the …

This article demonstrates the importance of studying insecurity in relation to identities at
work. Drawing upon empirical research with business school academics in the context of the …

Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have
multiple identities—based on attributes such as organizational membership, profession …