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 …

We conducted a systematic review of relevant literature to address how religious and
occupational identities relate to each other in the workplace. We identified 53 relevant …

Religion and spirituality strongly influence how most people experience the world, and
opportunities to integrate faith and work abound. Yet research on religion, spirituality, and …

Identities scholarship, in particular that focused on self-identities, has burgeoned in recent
years. With dozens of papers on identities in organizations published in this journal by a …

Organizational scholars have treated emotions mostly as an individual‐level phenomenon,
with limited theorisation of emotions as an important component in social embeddedness. In …

Emotions shape our lives and experiences as institutional actors, yet neo-institutional
theorizing has paid scant attention to them until recently. In this introduction to the Special …

Emotions are central to social life and thus they should be central to organization theory.
However, emotions have been treated implicitly rather than theorized directly in much of …

Religion is a significant social force on organizational practice yet has been relatively
underexamined in organization theory. In this article, I assert that the institutional logics …

Identity construction as a form of institutional work has mainly been studied from discursive
perspectives. We examine how the identity of start-up entrepreneurs is constructed within …