Overview

This practical yet cutting-edge Handbook includes both established and innovative methods for studying identity in management, organisations, and cognate fields. Incorporating a breadth of narrative, visual, ethnographic and embodied methods, as well as ways for analysing naturally occurring data, this Handbook offers exciting new interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of identity in and around organisations. Notions of identity have gained much momentum in organisation and management studies over the past 20 years, however, identity scholars tend to rely on a limited set of methods in their research. Looking beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries, the Handbook draws on ideas from management studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and the arts. With cutting-edge methods on the various facets and dynamics of identity, it is integral reading for the future progress of reflexive and dialogical social constructions for studying identity. This refreshing Handbook will be valuable to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines including business and management, psychology and sociology, but with a common interest in studying identity in and around organisations. With consistent practical methodology, consultants, facilitators and management practitioners, who aim to develop identities among individuals, groups, and organisations will also benefit widely from this.

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Author:   Ingo Winkler ,  Stefanie Reissner ,  Rosalía Cascón-Pereira
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781802207965

ISBN 10:   1802207961
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   25 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Acknowledgements by the editors xiii Prologue: studying identities and identity work xiv 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Identity In and Around Organizations 1 Ingo Winkler, Rosalía Cascón-Pereira and Stefanie Reissner PART I NARRATIVE METHODS 2 Plot and storyline analysis of personal identity narratives 13 Stefanie Reissner 3 Exploring identity interplay through performative textual analysis 26 Isidora Kourti 4 Organizational small storymaking and change: identity work as coming into being in narrative story dynamics 40 Ann Starbæk Bager 5 The qualitative survey as research design in exploring organizational identity 56 Anne Crafford and Johann Mouton PART II VISUAL METHODS 6 Social dream-drawing: a socioanalytic method for studying identity work 71 Antoni Barnard 7 A picture is worth a thousand words: social identity mapping as a way of visualizing and assessing social group connections 87 Sarah V. Bentley, S. Alexander Haslam, Katherine H. Greenaway, Tegan Cruwys and Nik Steffens PART III ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS 8 Netnography: a route to explore identity evolution as online videogames develop 104 Alexandra Samper-Martínez and Ercilia García-Álvarez 9 Mobile interviewing: harnessing the significance of place in identity research 117 Elham Moonesirust 10 The other: posing questions I am supposed to love – autoethnographically exploring identities and identity work 130 Henning Grosse 11 Who am I when I am in flow? An introduction to autoethnography as a method for studying identity 143 Ulrike Eva Posselt PART IV EMBODIED METHODS 12 Researching individual somatic identity through movement and dance: body-centred narrative inquiry 157 Cheryl K. Baldwin and Alyssa E. Motter 13 Examining identity using the creative art of mask-making 172 Mark Stephens and Ryan Higgins PART V METHODS FOR ELICITING PERSONAL MEANINGS 14 Repertory grid for exploring managers’ identities in a coaching programme 188 Rosalía Cascón-Pereira, Guillem Feixas and Miquel Alabernia-Segura 15 A portrait in words: using self-characterization sketches as an innovative method to explore work identities 204 Angela McGrane, Viv Burr and Nigel King 16 A multi-method approach for studying conscious and unconscious identity work 217 Christina Gossayn, Anne Crafford and Arien Strasheim PART VI METHODS FOR ANALYSING NATURALLY OCCURRING DATA 17 Using membership categorization analysis to study identities in talk and text 231 Andrea Whittle 18 Autobiographies and identity: using autobiographies to study identity in organizational research 246 Nick Mmbaga, Blake Mathias and Anne Smith 19 Assessing collective identity (non-)verification with social media data through web scraping, sentiment analysis, and qualitative coding 260 Tony P. Love, Jenny L. Davis, Rachel E. Davis, William G. Fisher and Rachel M. Barczak Epilogue: towards a methodological roadmap and beyond 274 Ingo Winkler, Rosalía Cascón-Pereira and Stefanie Reissner Index

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'The editors have brought together experienced and early career researchers from the social sciences, arts and humanities creating an excellent compilation of novel and engaging qualitative methods for studying identity in organisations. Chapters cover a range of methods offering new insights and providing sufficient detail to enable application.' -- Mark N.K Saunders, University of Birmingham, UK 'This Handbook is highly recommended to all identity researchers. Empirically researching identity has traditionally been a swampy challenge. Readers will be inspired and spoilt for choice of intellectually well-grounded and well-guided distinct, creative and appealing approaches to data generation and analysis that have been drawn from across disciplines and are supported by practical illustrations of the method-in-use. The methods discussed facilitate empirical inquiry while at the same time enabling theory building.' -- Kate Black, Northumbria University, the UK

'The editors have brought together experienced early career researchers from the social sciences, arts and humanities creating an excellent compilation of novel and engaging qualitative methods for studying identity in organisations. Chapters cover a range of methods offering new insights and providing sufficient detail to enable application.' -- Mark N.K Saunders, University of Birmingham, UK 'This Handbook is highly recommended to all Identity researchers. Empirically researching Identity has traditionally been a swampy challenge. Readers will be inspired and spoilt for choice of intellectually well-grounded and well-guided distinct, creative and appealing approaches to data generation and analysis that have been drawn from across disciplines and are supported by practical illustrations of the method-in-use. The methods discussed facilitate empirical inquiry while at the same time enabling theory building.' -- Kate Black, Northumbria University, the UK

Author Information

Edited by Ingo Winkler, Associate Professor of Organization Studies and Leadership, Department of Business and Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, Stefanie Reissner, Durham University, UK and Rosalía Cascón-Pereira, Associate Professor in HRM, Department of Business Management, University Rovira I Virgili, Spain

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