Exploring Identity

ALISON PULLEN works at The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and holds an Honorary Fellowship at The University of Bristol, UK. NIC BEECH is Professor of Management at St Andrews University, UK, and Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, UK. DAVID SIMS is Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Associate Dean, and Director of the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change at Cass Business School, City University, London, UK.

• Introduction: You, Me, Us and Identity: Introducing Exploring IdentityPART I: CONCEPTS The Obscure Subject of Consumer Identity; M.SarenIdentity and Personal Branding; C.Oswick & M.RobertsonThe Metaphorical Construction of Organizational Identity; J.CornelissenIdentification: Organizations and Structuralisms; M.ParkerControl, Resistance and Surveillance; C.Rhodes, R.Iedema & H.ScheeresAs Leadership Dies: Cases of Individual and Group Identity Destruction and Construction; A.Carr & C.LappIdentity Work, Managing and Researching; T.WatsonWorking Out: Lesbian and Gay Identity in the Workplace; J.Ward & D.WinstanleyChoreographies of Identities; N.Slutskaya & S.SchrevenDisidentity; S.Harney & N.NyathiPART II: METHODS Large Scale Identity Research and Cognitive Mapping; G.ClarksonAction Research and Identity; J.Wolfram-Cox & B.CookeIdentity Trajectories in Participative Organizational Research; P.Hibbert, R.MacIntosh & P.McInnesExploring Collective Identity through Ethnography and Music; S.LinsteadInterviews and Identity; C.CouplandNarrative Methods for Identity Research; N.Beech & D.SimsNegotiating Identities of Consumption: Insights from Conversation Analysis; N.Llewellyn & R.BurrowGendering the Research Self; A.PullenThe Cartography of a Life; A.Pitsis.