Entrepreneurial identity: A review and research agenda

M Radu-Lefebvre, V Lefebvre… - … Theory and Practice, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past three decades, research on entrepreneurial identity (EI) has grown particularly
rapidly, yet in seemingly disparate directions. To lend structure to this fragmented field of …

Identity work in organizations and occupations: Definitions, theories, and pathways forward

BB Caza, H Vough, H Puranik - Journal of organizational …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Agony and ecstasy in the gig economy: Cultivating holding environments for precarious and personalized work identities

G Petriglieri, SJ Ashford… - Administrative Science …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Building on an inductive, qualitative study of independent workers—people not affiliated with
an organization or established profession—this paper develops a theory about the …

Identities in and around organizations: Towards an identity work perspective

AD Brown - Human relations, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
There is an emergent identity work perspective that draws on multiple intertwined streams of
established identities theorizing and identities-related research. This perspective is …

Identity work and organizational identification

AD Brown - International journal of management reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Identity under construction: How individuals come to define themselves in organizations

BE Ashforth, BS Schinoff - Annual Review of Organizational …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Individuals need a situated identity, or a clear sense of “who they are” in their local context,
to function. Drawing largely on interpretivist research, we describe the process of identity …

The art of phenomena construction: A framework for coming up with research phenomena beyond 'the usual suspects'

M Alvesson, J Sandberg - Journal of Management Studies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the centrality of research phenomena, the process of their definition is often
neglected and reduced to a simple choosing of pre‐established subjects of interest …

Digital technology and changing roles: a management accountant's dream or nightmare?

RI Andreassen - Journal of management control, 2020 - Springer
Recent developments in digital technology have revitalized interest in the relationship
between technology and management accounting. Yet, few empirical in-depth studies have …

Identity and identification at work

D Miscenko, DV Day - Organizational Psychology Review, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Work identity and identification have generated a great deal of interest in the fields of
organizational psychology and organizational behavior. Given several theoretical …

Sandwiched: Exploring role and identity of middle managers in the genuine middle

S Gjerde, M Alvesson - Human relations, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores middle managers in the professions from their position in the
sandwiched middle. Based upon interviews with senior academics in management roles …