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Exploring the registers of identity research
journal contribution
posted on 2017-06-14, 11:03 authored by S. Corlett, P. McInnes, Christine CouplandChristine Coupland, M. SheepAs the lead, introductory, contribution to this special issue ‘exploring registers of identity research’, this paper offers a view of three different “registers” that might be seen to characterize identity research and which feature, to a greater or lesser extent, in the selected papers. First, the paper offers a means to understand the different theoretical traditions used to explain what constitutes identity and how it might be
known. Second, it considers the relationship between different levels of identity – individual, group, professional, organizational, and societal. Third, it reviews the methodologies used to understand identities and examines key theoretical assumptions which feature in academic debates, and in the selected papers, around identity theorizing. Drawing on the papers included in this special issue we offer a framework as a heuristic device that might guide scholars looking to enter the field of
identity research and enable those already familiar with particular theoretical traditions, levels, or methods to explore possibilities for extending their research. As enticement to tackle the challenges extension across-registers can present, we again turn to the special issue articles to examine – through a series of ‘gets’ – the different tactics authors might use to access the rich potential offered by crossfertilization between registers. Our contribution then lies in advancing the potential
for dialogue between registers of identity research.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
International Journal of Management ReviewsCitation
CORLETT, S. ... et al, 2017. Exploring the registers of identity research. International Journal of Management Reviews, 19 (3), pp. 261–272.Publisher
Wiley © British Academy of Management and WileyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-05-05Publication date
2017Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: CORLETT, S. ... et al, 2017. Exploring the registers of identity research. International Journal of Management Reviews, 19 (3), pp. 261–272, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12149. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.ISSN
1460-8545eISSN
1468-2370Publisher version
Language
- en