Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Identity In and Around Organizations: Usual Suspects and Beyond

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and innovative approach to studying identity in management, organizations, and related fields, incorporating a range of narrative, visual, ethnographic, and embodied methods, as well as analyzing naturally occurring data. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives and cutting-edge methods, making it an essential resource for scholars and students interested in understanding identity dynamics within organizations.

Format: Hardback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 18 July 2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

This practical yet cutting-edge Handbook includes both established and innovative methods for studying identity in management, organizations, and cognate fields. Incorporating a breadth of narrative, visual, ethnographic, and embodied methods, as well as ways for analyzing naturally occurring data, this Handbook offers exciting new interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of identity in and around organizations.

Notions of identity have gained much momentum in organization 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 organizations. With consistent practical methodology, consultants, facilitators, and management practitioners, who aim to develop identities among individuals, groups, and organizations will also benefit widely from this.

Dimension: 244 x 169 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781802207965