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 …

Organizational research has long been interested in crises and crisis management. Whether
focused on crisis antecedents, outcomes, or managing a crisis, research has revealed a …

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 …

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 …

In a world filled with poverty, environmental degradation, and moral injustice, social
enterprises offer a ray of hope. These organizations seek to achieve social missions through …

Many new ventures have to “pivot”—radically transform what they are about—because their
original approach has failed. However, pivoting risks disrupting relationships with key …

Identification (a state of perceived “oneness” with a given target) fulfills fundamental human
motives and facilitates a range of positive outcomes, but it also has a dark side. While …

In this paper, we explore how emotions influence organizations in situations of institutional
complexity. In particular, we study members' and leaders' emotive responses and influence …

Research about the effects of an organization's general reputation following a negative
event remains equivocal: Some studies have found that high reputation is a benefit because …