... makers, and while theory may provide important sensitising conceptions, the key concepts and understandings are created by the participants of the study (Alvesson and Deetz, 2000). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Total quality management Work identity Managers Poland...

... the internet and e‐mail. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Work identity Organizational change Narratives Learning The context of work is a crucial domain for the development of personal identities (Hogg and Terry, 2000). The increasingly complex and dynamic working environment...

... of exploration and discovery necessary for creating new identities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Work identity Individual behaviour Career development The fact that people tend to flirt only with serious things – madness, disaster, other people – makes it a relationship, a way...

... (Strangleman, 2004, p. 176). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Gender Organizational change Work identity Narratives People are consciously and unconsciously “made up” through a complex grid of experiences across time and space (Hacking, 1986 ; Giddens, 1991 ; Ezzamel...

... of analyses (Kelly and Glover, 2000 ; Rosenthal, 2001). These studies challenge the dominance of structure over agency, and reclaim agency for the individual professional both in terms of change response and change initiation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Work identity Professional...

...), or as communities of people with similar ethnic origin or geographic location which self‐organise as unions (Black, 2005 ; Fine, 2001 ; Ness, 2005). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Communities Trade unions Democracy Work identity The employment relationship is one of unequal...

... the isolation of local managers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Work identity Globalization Trade unions Communities Internationalisation and worker identities, especially in the context of globalisation, require the multinational company (MNC) to possess a deep understanding...

... remember when I got lost”. Entrepreneurs Women Self employed workers Work identity Narratives All the beauty of the winter can be found in any single snowflake [1] . In traditional entrepreneurship research it is customary to perceive and understand entrepreneurship as something...

... are organized around a particular binary form (male/female) through various complex assemblages: legal, medical, linguistic and so on (Gatens, 1996, p. 178). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Change management Work identity Women Gender Dominating the wall of the University...

... of work does not propel it into context‐free time and space, but necessitates its re‐rooting into the concreteness of somewhere, sometime and someone – into culturally defined spaces and times and into existing social networks. Work identity Change management Teleworking Individual behaviour...

... of strategic change and identity dynamics addressing the explanatory agenda. An approach is adopted that focuses on change as a continual process of becoming (rather than a succession of stable states) at the micro‐strategy level. Narratives Change management Work identity Alex also recognised...