Identity Matters
Reflections on the Construction of Identity Scholarship in Organization Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5780015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mats Alvesson (0000-0001-8709-4684, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden,), Karen Lee Ashcraft (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA,), Robyn Thomas (0000-0002-7887-8679, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, UK,) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-28 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1350508407084426 |
| OpenAlex | W2133187976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 281 |
| References cited | 49 |
Key tensions underlying much of the identity literature; we foreground identity matters as encountered by individuals, understood as social; durability of identity; identity in its various conceptualizations offers creative ways to understand a range of organizational settings and phenomena while bridging the levels from micro to macro
Organization studies · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Management and Organizational Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
University Teacher Educators’ Professional Agency
Organizations—Made by Communication, Makers of Communication
Myths to work by
Myths to work by
Identity, Personal
Identity work – organising the self, organising music
The rise of artificial intelligence – understanding the AI identity threat at the workplace
A Labour of Love? Academics in Business Schools
Identity Work and Organizational Identification
Ethnography, Reality, and Truth: The Vital Need for Studies of ‘How Things Work’ in Organizations and Management
Un/doing Chrononormativity
The Autonomy Paradox
Letting Go and Moving On
The Glass Slipper
Shattering the Myth of Separate Worlds
Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities
Identities and Identity Work in Organizations
Lost leaders
Cross-Domain Identity Transition during Liminal Periods
Generating Research Questions Through Problematization
The Don Draper complex
Oddity as Commodity? The body as symbolic resource for Other-defying identity work
What’s Age Got to Do With It? On the Critical Analysis of Age and Organizations
Identity, Enactment, and Entrepreneurship Engagement in a Declining Place
Placing Identity
Dealing with multiple incompatible work-related identities
Syrian Women Refugees
Health promotion roles shaped by professional identity
Men’s Leadership Development
Cultivating Courage, Cowardice, or Complacency? An Identity-Based Perspective on Faculty Resistance to Managerialism
Nascent entrepreneurship and development
Liminality of Institutionalized and Under-Institutionalized Identities
From vocation to profession
Ich sag dir, wer ich (nicht) bin! Syntaktische Analyse zum differenzierten Identifizieren von identitätsbasierenden Spannungsfeldern am Beispiel von Interviews mit weiblichen Führungskräften
New Perspectives on Collective Collaboration Within and Between Change Laboratory Sessions
Academic Identity and Communities of Practice
Comparative Planning Research, Learning, and Governance
Systematic review of research on women and educational leadership in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
‘We are the women who clean and the structural base of the hotel’
Behind the digital curtain
Identity positions of the resisting student in the academic student resistance discourse
Corporate social responsibility, social bonding and place attachment among entrepreneurs of small and medium‐sized tourism enterprises
Beyond the Screen
‘I’m Just a Big Teddy Bear’
Managing “Who I Am”
Students as (More Than) Consumers? An Exploration of Undergraduates' Discourses and Practices in Marketised Higher Education
Navigating academic career identity development
‘Doing something with society’
De regressu
Ethical Decision-Making in Family Firms
Identity Drift
Microaggressions, Interrupted
“We are Neither Commies nor Volunteers”
The role of situated talk in developing doctoral students’ researcher identities
‘The balance is a forever moving one’
Making sense of (mis)matched frames of reference
What perspectives underlie ‘researcher identity’? A review of two decades of empirical studies
Caring for the divided self
The Content and Role of Intrinsic Motivation in Creative Work
The Engagement Imperative
‘It could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back’
Organizational identification among global virtual team members
Mastery, submission, and subversion
Extreme work, gendered work? How extreme jobs and the discourse of ‘personal choice’ perpetuate gender inequality
Organizing beyond organization
Lack and jouissance in hegemonic discourse of identification with the state
Constituting affective identities
Never social and entrepreneurial enough? Exploring the identity work of social entrepreneurs from a psychoanalytic perspective
‘Never call me a mercenary’
Autoethnography and academic identity
Stop ‘helping’ me! Identity, recognition and agency in the nexus of work and care
Governing through creativity
Managing precarity at the intersection of individual and collective life
Digitally crafting a resistant professional identity
Identity regulation in neo-liberal societies
Organizational inclusion and identity regulation
Romanticisation and monetisation of the digital nomad lifestyle
Moving boredom from problem to opportunity
Articulating circumstance, identity and practice
Identity work at the intersection of dirty work, caste, and precarity
Masculinity, embodiment and identity-work
Recognition at the corporate celebration of Christmas
Citius, Altius, Fortius
‘Not even semblance’
Elite identity and status anxiety
Axes and fluidity of oppression in the workplace
In pursuit of happiness
Unveiling the subject behind diversity
‘If you’re struggling to survive day-to-day’
Network-Domains in Combat and Fashion Organizations
Encountering the Arugula Leaf
What the Hell is That
Online identities in and around organizations
Making Sustainable Places Through Spaces
Language and Identity
Olfactive Frames of Remembering
Vol 10 No 2 (2020)
Balancing Costs and Patients' Health
Vol 10 No 1 (2020)
The Complexities of Boundaries, Task Claims, and Professional Identity in Teamwork
Crafting Selves
Theorizing the Micro-politics of Resistance
Constructing Professional Identity
Good Visions, Bad Micro-management and Ugly Ambiguity
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Marketization and the Recasting of the Professional Self
Bringing Work Back In
Identity Regulation as Organizational Control
Engineering Culture
Defaulting to Management
Re-viewing `Role' in Processes of Identity Construction
Management Consultant Talk
Losing the Plot? Middle Managers and Identity
Losing the Plot? Middle Managers and Identity
Intensive Remedial Identity Work
On the Nature of Dialogic Identity Work
Managing Identity
Reworking Gender
Provisional Selves
Organizational Communication and Cultural Studies
Development of a Structurational Model of Identification in the Organization
Slaves with white collars
The Interlocking of Gender with Nationality, Race, Ethnicity and Class
On the various and changing meanings of organizational membership
Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory
The Sociological Imagination
The Business of Talk
Knowledge and Human Interests
Managing Managerial Identities
Identities and Insecurities
Rhetoric in an Organizational Society
Rhetoric in an Organizational Society
Entrepreneurial Management in the Public Sector
Career as a Project of the Self and Labour Process Discipline
Someone to Watch Over Me
Power and Subjectivity at Work
Identity Construction
Identification in the Self-Managing Organization Characteristics of Target and Tenure
| Unique citing works | 281 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15,61 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 280 |