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 …

We conceptualize the roots of cognitive, linguistic, and communicative theories of institutions
and outline the promise and potential of a stronger communication focus for institutional …

One of the greatest challenges for social science today is to say something novel and
interesting. Today's conventional wisdom is founded on a mountain of established …

The purpose of this article is to revision Morgan and Smircich's typology, taking into account
the changes in organization and management theory over the intervening 30 years …

How much of our self is defined by our work? Fundamental changes in the social
organization of work are destabilizing the relationship between work and the self. As a …

In the opening chapters, we saw that communication in society influences our
understandings of gender and our gendered identities. It's equally true that our …

We outline a research methodology developed around two basic elements: the active
discovery and/or creation of mysteries and the subsequent solving of the mysteries. A key …

A growing body of literature now exists concerning the social construction of leadership. This
literature draws on a variety of definitions of social constructionism, multiple constructs, and …

Introduction beings embedded in organizational contexts. For us, identity loosely refers to
subjective meanings and experience, to our ongoing efforts to address the twin …