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 …

The existing research on identity work is primarily focused on identities in isolation as well
as how individuals respond to identity threats. We seek to broaden the identity work …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the identity and
diversity literatures and discuss how a better understanding of the theoretical connections …

Pervasive employee mobility between organizations generates an abundance of alumni for
firms. Fragmented research streams have shown alumni can create or destroy value after …

The stories we tell about our origins can shape how we think and act–helping us make
sense of and communicate who we have “become” over time. To better understand the role …

This study takes an affiliative coping theory perspective to examine whether working adults
reactivated dormant ties with individuals they had not contacted for at least 3 years to cope …

Organizational support theory (OST) suggests that employees develop a general perception
of the extent to which the organization values their contributions and cares about their well …

We investigate how the temporal effects of past, present, and future influence organizational
identification. We examine an underrepresented but important stakeholder group …

How do corporations attempt to regulate the ways middle managers draw on discourses
centred on 'effectiveness' and 'ethics' in their identity work, and how do these individuals …