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 …

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 …

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity …

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 …

'Sensemaking'is an extraordinarily influential perspective with a substantial following among
management and organization scholars interested in how people appropriate and enact …

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

How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and
organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines …

This article examines the effects of power on sensemaking processes, bridging two major,
yet traditionally separate, literatures in organization studies. Dividing power into its systemic …

Theory and research concerning organizational identity (“who we are as an organization”) is
a burgeoning domain within organization study. A great deal of conceptual and empirical …

We proposed the Relational Activation of Resilience model to explain how leaders could
utilize relationships to activate resilience during crisis and illustrated it using an abbreviated …