Self-awareness—how we see ourselves and the effects we have on our environment—
influences our behavior and the type of person we want to become. This article examines …

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 …

Online communities provide spaces for people who are vulnerable and underserved to seek
support and build community, such as LGBTQ+ people. Today, some online community …

There is an emergent identity work perspective that draws on multiple intertwined streams of
established identities theorizing and identities-related research. This perspective is …

A growing body of leadership literature focuses on leader and follower identity dynamics,
levels, processes of development and outcomes. Despite the importance of the phenomena …

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 …

Pre-professional identity is a complex phenomenon spanning awareness of and connection
with the skills, qualities, behaviours, values and standards of a student's chosen profession …

Personal branding has become an important concept in management literature in recent
years. Yet, with more than 100 scholarly papers published on the concept to date, it has …

We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of
gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women …

The extent to which someone thinks of him-or herself as a leader (ie, leader identity) is
subject to change in a dynamic manner because of experience and structured intervention …