Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, Effectiveness, and Consequences of Narrative Identity Work in Macro Work Role Transitions

By H. Ibarra, Roxana Barbulescu. 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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“I Identify with Her,” “I Identify with Him”: Unpacking the Dynamics of Personal Identification in Organizations (2016, background): “However, identity narrativesmust be reasonably plausible, 42 JanuaryAcademy of Management Review since “successful stories [are] those that generate feelings of authenticity and are deemed valid by their target audience” (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010: 136).”
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Identity and Well-Being in Sensemaking About Retention and Turnover (2017, background): “Other researchers have explicated identity work and well-being processes (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010; Keyes, Shmotkin, & Ryff, 2002; Snow & Anderson, 1987; Vignoles, Ragalia, Manzi, Golledge, & Scabini, 2006) and have also found that assessments can result in perceptions of threat or benefit to…”
From Synchronizing to Harmonizing: The Process of Authenticating Multiple Work Identities (2018, background): “Because individuals are psychologically and socially driven to develop a sense of coherence and continuity (Ibarra and Barbulescu, 2010) but also may be innately complex, aggregating may serve as an effective identity management practice for those with multiple valued work identities.”
Imprinting by Design: The Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Adaptation (2014, background): “This is a novel perspective, given that autobiographical memory has rarely been considered in relation to organizational phenomena (cf. Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010).”
Pathways for Positive Identity Construction at Work: Four Types of Positive Identity and the Building of Social Resources (2010, background): “…capture features or attributes that individuals associate with themselves (Markus, 1977), or they might be represented in a narrative form (McAdams, 1993), as individuals story who they are in interaction with others (Gergen & Gergen, 1988) and over time (Carlsen, 2008; Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010).”
The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders’ Identity Work (2012, methodology): “Building on this insight, a literature on the role of identity in the process of leader development is emerging (Day, 2001; Day & Harrison, 2007; DeRue, Ashford, & Cotton, 2009; Ely, Ibarra, & Kolb, 2011; Ibarra et al., 2010; Lord & Hall, 2005; Petriglieri, Wood, & Petriglieri, 2011).”
Who will Lead and Who will Follow? a Social Process of Leadership Identity Construction in Organizations (2010, background): “While the idea of social interactionism is not new to the identity literature (Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934), the identity literature is only beginning to explain when social interaction is more or less important for identity construction (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010).”
Identity and identification at work (2016, methodology): “An important introspective attribute of narrating process is coherence, as the construction of a personal story should help an individual maintain a sense of self-coherence (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010).”
The career resources model: an integrative framework for career counsellors (2012, background): “…related to one’s conscious awareness of oneself as a worker, of one’s occupational interests, abilities, goals and values, of the importance of one’s work and of the structure of meanings in which such selfperceptions are linked with career roles (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010; Meijers, 1998).”
The Impact of Role Identities on Entrepreneurs’ Evaluation and Selection of Opportunities (2017, background): “Together, these role identities reflect a fundamental reality of life; that is, individuals (namely, entrepreneurs) must simultaneously deal with, sometimes conflicting, sets of behavioral expectations (Ashforth, Rogers, & Corley, 2011; DeRue & Ashford, 2010; Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010).”
Narrative attributions of entrepreneurial failure (2013, background): “It enabled the actors to argue that they had learned from the failures that they acknowledged (Ibarra, 1999; Ibarra and Barbulescu, 2010; Watson, 2009).”
Job Search and Voluntary Turnover in a Boundaryless world: a Control Theory Perspective (2011, background): “Transitioning to new roles that require different skills, attitudes, and interactions can refine or change one’s self-identity (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010) and provide clearer goals and direction in one’s career (McArdle et al., 2007).”
Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics (2015, background): “When entering a new career, country, or lifestyle, people provisionally adhere to its tastes and look for validation, negotiating a new identity via injunctive norm adherence (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010).”