This review presents an overview of research on identity politics. First, I distinguish between
various approaches to defining identity politics and the challenges presented by each …

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 …

We use a dialectical perspective to provide a unique framework for understanding
institutional change that more fully captures its totalistic, historical, and dynamic nature, as …

Scholarship establishes a new field of study in the organizational sciences. Just as positive
psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than …

In this paper we organize research on work-related identities into a four-perspective
typology that captures different ways identities can be “positive.” Each perspective on …

I review and reconceptualize identity threat, defining it as an experience appraised as
indicating potential harm to the value, meanings, or enactment of an identity. I also develop …

In this study, we examined 82 accounts of “issue selling” to better understand managers'
implicit theories for successfully sha** change from below by directing the attention of top …

When will individuals speak up about organizational issues, and when will they remain
silent? We suggest that organizational voice will be significantly influenced by individuals' …

Invisible social identities influence social interaction in distinct ways and create unique
dynamics in terms of identity management. We integrate research from the sexuality, illness …

We show how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) ministers in two mainline
Protestant denominations in the United States experience and address a salient institutional …