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 …

We trace the development of neo-institutional theory in Organization Studies from a marginal
topic to the dominant theory. We show how it has evolved from infancy, through adolescence …

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity …

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 …

'Institutional work'has evolved from a concept introduced to capture a set of actions
described in institutional research, to a perspective on the relationship between institutions …

This article examines the effects of power on sensemaking processes, bridging two major,
yet traditionally separate, literatures in organization studies. Dividing power into its systemic …

While there has been much work on the relationship between information technology (IT)
and organizational change, there has been limited research that theorizes the relationship …

Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly showing how people'work'to construct
organizational life, including the rules and routines that shape and enable organizational …

This article synthesizes the large and burgeoning literature on framing to unpack how
frames achieve resonance with an audience. The analysis identifies two main resonance …