The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations

Andrew D. Brown is Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Management, University of Bath. He has previously held faculty positions at the universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Cambridge, and Warwick. His primary research interests centre on issues of identity, especially as they relate to sensemaking, narrative, and power. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization, and he is an Associate Editor for Human Relations.

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