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Subject(s)

• Organizational behavior [Browse]
• Social psychology [Browse]
• Identity (Philosophical concept) [Browse]

Editor

• Brown, Andrew D. (Andrew Douglas) [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"Conceived as the meanings that individuals attach to their selves, a substantial stockpile of theory related to identities accumulated across the arts, social sciences, and humanities over many decades continues to nourish contemporary research on self-identities in organizations. In times which are more reflexive, narcissistic, and fluid, the identities of participants in organizations are increasingly less fixed and less certain, making identity issues both more salient and more interesting. Paraticular attention has been given to processes of identity construction, often styled 'identity work'. Research has focused on how, why, and when such processes occur, and their implications for organizing and individual, group, and organizational outcomes. This has resulted in a burgeoning stream of research from discursive, dramaturgical, symbolic, socio-cognitive, and psychodynamic perspectives that most often casts individuals' efforts to fabricate identities as intentional, relational, and consequential. Seemingly intractable debates centred on the nature of identities - their relative stability or fluidity, whether they are best regarded as coherent or fractured, positive (or not), and how they are fabricated within relations of power - combined with other conceptual issues continue to invigorate the field. However, these debates have also led to some scepticism regarding the future potential of identities research. Yet as the chapters in this Handbook demonstrate, there are considerable grounds for optimism that identity, as root metaphor, nexus concept, and means to bridge levels of analysis has significant potential to generate multiple compelling streams of theorizing in organization and management studies."--Publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Identities in Organizations / Andrew D. Brown
• Section I. Surveying the territory. On the Scope and Limits of Identity / Mats Alvesson and Susann Gjerde ; Bridging Self and Sociality: Construction and Social Control / Sierk Ybema ; 'Identity Work': A Metaphor Taken Literally / Rosie Oswick and Cliff Oswick ; Networks and Identity: Positioning the Self and Others Across Organizational and Network Boundaries, Nick Ellis and Gillian Hopkinson ; Career Identity: An Ongoing Narrative Accomplishment / Patrizia Hoyer ; Applying an intersectional Perspective to Identity Foci at Work / Doyin Atewologun, Roxanne Kutzer, and Elena Doldor ; Preserving the Generative Potential of Identity Scholarship: The Value of Writerly Texts / Peter Mcinnes and Sandra Corlett
• Section II. Approaches to identities research. Discourse, Communication and Identity / Timothy R. Kuhn and Jayne Simpson ; A Psychodynamic Perspective on Identity as Fabrication / Gianpiero Petriglieri ; Lacan, Identities and Organizations: Potentialities and Impossibilities / Kate Kenny ; Performed Identities / Nic H. Beech and Stephen Broad ; Noise, Identity and Pre-interpreted Worlds: A Phenomenological Perspective / Gerardo Patriotta ; Materialities and Identities / Nancy H. Harding ; Making Sense of Myself: Exploring the Relationship between Identity and Sensemaking / Heather C. Vough, Brianna B. Caza and Sally Maitlis ; Bourdieu and Identity: Class / History / and Field Structure / Chris Carter and Crawford Spence
• Section II. Researching identities. Human Identities, Identity Work and Organizations: Putting the Sociological Imagination into Practice / Tony Watson ; How Can I Study Who You Are? Comparing Grounded Theory and Phenomenology as Methodological Approaches to Identity Work Research / Michael J. Gill ; Conversations with the Self and Others: Practicing Reflexive Researcher Identity Work / Leanne Cutcher ; Membership Categorisation Analysis: Studying Identities in Talk and Text 'In Situ / In Vivo' / Andrea Whittle and Frank Mueller ; Between the Bridge and the Door: Video Diaries and Identity Relations / Mike Zundel, David Mackay, Robert Mcintosh and Claire Mckenzie ; Historical Methods for Researching Identities in Organizations / Michael Rowlinson and Michael Heller
• Section I. Issues in and processes of identity construction. Autobiographical Memory and Organizational Identity: The Role of Temporal Fluidity / Roy Suddaby, Majken Schultz and Trevor Israelsen ; Real, Fake, and Crystallized Identities / Sarah J. Tracy and Sophia Town ; Identity, Image, and Brand / Dan Karreman and Sanne Frandsen ; 'If You Have To Say You Are, You Aren't': Paradoxes of Trumpian Identity Work Knotting In A Post-Truth Context / Gail T. Fairhurst and Mathew L. Sheep ; Emotions and Identity / Ingo Winkler ; Fiction and the Identity of the Manager / Mark Learmonth and Martyn Griffin ; The Liminal Playground: Identity Play and the Creative Potential of Liminal Experiences / Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru ; Gender Identity: Does It Still Matter in Organizations and Society? / Marianna Fotaki ;Identity Work in Developing Collaborative Leadership / Barbara Simpson and Brigid Carroll
• Section V. Identity types and kinds. Age Identity and Organizations: Critical Potential and Challenges / Susan Ainsworth ; Hybrid Professional Identities: Responding to Institutional Challenges / Graeme Currie and Katey Logan ; Organization Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Identities / Nick Rumens ; Stigmatized Identities in Organizations / Glen E. Kreiner and Christine A. Mihelcic ; Anchored in the Past: Nostalgic Identities in Organizations / Yiannis Gabriel ; National Identity In and Around Multinational Corporations / Alexei Koveshnikov, Janne Tienari and Eero Vaara ; Paradoxes in the Pursuit of Positive Identities: Individuals in Organizations Becoming Their Best / Mathew L. Sheep ; Crafting Philanthropic Identities / Mairi Maclean and Charles Harvey ; Race and Identity in Organizations / Mrinalini Greedharry, Pasi Ahonen, and Janne Tienari ; Creating Creative Identities in Organizations / Iva Josefsson ; Identity Regulation and Globalisation / Mehdi Boussebaa
• Section VI. Identities in organizational processes and outcomes. Finding Ourselves in Space: Identity and Spatiality / Alison Hirst and Michael Humphreys ; Identity and Power in Organizational Theory / Thibaut Bardon and Stephan Peze ; Theorizing the 'I' in Institutional Theory: Moving Forward Through Theoretical Fragmentation / not Integration / Jaco Lok ; Leadership and Identities: Towards More Critical Relational Approaches / Jackie Ford ; Entrepreneurship and Identity / Emmanuelle Fauchart and Marc Gruber ; Strategy and Identities in Organizations / Ann Langley, David Oliver and Linda Rouleau
• Section VII. Looking forward: the future of identities in organizations research. The Killing Fields of Identity Politics / Caroline Clarke and David Knights ; Identities and Identification: Beyond our Fixation on the Organization / Blake E. Ashforth, Jordana R. Moser and Philipp Bubenezer ; Agile Identities: Fragile Humans? / Christine Coupland and Simona Spedale ; Senses of Self: Affect as a Pre-Individual Approach to Identity at Work / Karen Lee Ashcraft ; Identities, Digital Nomads, and Liquid Modernity / Sumati Ahuja, Natalia Nikolova and Stewart Clegg ; Identity Saves the World? Musings on Where Identity Research Has Been and Where It Might Go / Michael G. Pratt ; Identities in Organizations: Some Concluding Thoughts / Andrew D. Brown.

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ISBN

• 0198827113 (hardback)
• 9780198827115 (hardback)

OCLC

1107513938

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