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 …

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 …

Although narrative analysis has made significant advances in organization and
management studies, scholars have not yet unleashed its full potential. This review provides …

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 …

With the unprecedented rise in the use of visuals, and its undeniable omnipresence in
organizational contexts, as well as in the individual's everyday life, organization and …

This paper provides an overview of previous work that has explored the processes and
mechanisms by which communication constitutes organizing (as ongoing efforts at …

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Now in its Fourth Edition, this much
loved text offers theoretical and philosophical depth without sacrificing what you need to …

The field of visual research in management studies is develo** rapidly and has reached a
point of maturity where it is useful to bring together and evaluate existing work in this area …