..., stemming from identity meanings associated with the place, and toward which time and energy are invested) to help a community overcome a development project that favored corporate interests over local place-based development. Design/methodology/approach This article combines autoethnography...

..., 2007 : 68). Andrea Whittle can be contacted at: andrea.whittle@newcastle.ac.uk 22 09 2025 12 12 2025 12 12 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ethnography Reflexivity Identity Academics Research...

...Graham Frobisher; Deborah Price; Jo Brewis Purpose The 7th decade manager (7DM) is an overlooked and under-researched group in organisation studies. This paper explores the changes which 7DMs experience in later life through the lenses of age, work and identity. Design/methodology/approach...

... in extreme context research, and management and organization studies scholars engaged in dangerous fieldwork more broadly, are under institutional pressure to continue work that may put themselves in harm's way. Traumatic experiences also shape and reflect the researcher's identity, which informs choices...

... to analyze the data. Findings Six themes emerged as sources of power imbalance and eight themes as the way of deflating power imbalance. The core category that emerged was “enhancing personal identity”, which was the underlying phenomenon leading to deflation of power imbalance, through the intersection...

...Debadutta Kumar Panda Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how business ecosystems evolve, what is the identity of business ecosystem and is the ecosystem identity static or dynamics. To understand the above questions, this paper is conducted on stone carving clusters in India...

...Chloé Adler; Carole Lalonde Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize a body of research addressing changes in academic identity brought on by neo-liberal university management while proposing a new interpretation based on the institutional work theory and a relational approach to agency...

...Robert Jerome; David Cavazos; Robert Horn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz to illustrate the individual identity issues that can arise as a result of institutional complexity in organizations. Using Baum’s text to tell the story of four faculty...

...Isidora Kourti Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and incorporate personal narratives as a new methodological tool into the qualitative research of complex organisational issues such as identity. Particularly, this study provides a fresh methodological perspective on organisational...

...Ingo Winkler Purpose – Telling the story of the author’s attempts acquiring the Danish language over the past three and a half years, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how identity work is narratively accomplished within organisational contexts. It aims at developing an in-depth...

...Clare Butler; Jocelyn Finniear; Anne Marie Doherty; Steve Hill Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of incorporating visual methods in the study of identity and identity work. Design/methodology/approach – Scholars have proposed a range of approaches to the study...

...Ann L. Cunliffe and Karen Locke; Tim Butcher Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine distinctions between embeddedness and belonging in ethnographic fieldwork to make sense of a researcher's identity position in the field. Design/methodology/approach – A confessional ethnographic...