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 …

John Austin introduced the formulation 'performative utterance'in his 1962 book How to Do
Things with Words. This term and the related concept of performativity have subsequently …

Work identity and identification have generated a great deal of interest in the fields of
organizational psychology and organizational behavior. Given several theoretical …

This paper reviews and evaluates the concept of power in management and organization
science. In order to organize the extant literature on this topic, we develop a framework that …

In this paper, we review the development of critical management studies, point at problems
and explore possible developments. We begin by tracing out two previous waves of critical …

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 …

We investigated how professional role identity change can be accomplished in highly
institutionalized contexts characterized by resiliency. We show that the collective …