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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of
the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex …

This article explores middle managers in the professions from their position in the
sandwiched middle. Based upon interviews with senior academics in management roles …

This article demonstrates the importance of studying insecurity in relation to identities at
work. Drawing upon empirical research with business school academics in the context of the …

While there is growing interest in professional identity construction (eg Clarke et al., 2009),
little is known about how stigma may influence the development of professional identity …

Why Making Sense of Management? Because we believe that management is too important
to be left to management gurus and the recyclers of the received wisdoms distilled in …