Abstract
I Contain Multitudes: How Identity Complexity Informs Meaning Making and Identity Work
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2025(1)
07/2025
DOI: 10.5465/AMPROC.2025.13352symposium
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This symposium brings together four papers that introduce new ways to examine people’s complex understandings of their identities and show how considering the interrelationships between identities advances our understanding of meaning making, identity work, and work outcomes. Two of the papers in this symposium (Astrove, Cockburn, & Greco; Johnson, Anikiej, & Majkowska-Smith) advance the literature on identity complexity by focusing on specific identities (avocational callings) and disruptive events (immigration) that have reverberating effects across multiple identities. Two of the papers in this symposium (Nielsen, Zhou, Hedrick, & Thompson; Jauron & Colbert) examine an identity (i.e., called professional, artisan) that possesses multiple meanings, an identity that is complex within itself. The complexity that exists within a single identity may complicate the meaning that is derived from the complex identity and the ways in which the complex identity influences behavior and decisions. We believe that this symposium will generate productive discussions about the ways in which complexity can be integrated into future identity research to provide a more complete understanding of the meaning making and identity work that is required to manage identity complexity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- I Contain Multitudes: How Identity Complexity Informs Meaning Making and Identity Work
- Creators
- Drew JauronAmy E. Colbert - University of IowaStacy Lyn Astrove - University of DelawareBethany Cockburn - Northern Illinois UniversityLindsey Greco - Oklahoma State University Oklahoma CityErin Johnson - University of IowaMaya Anikiej - University of IowaAleksandra Majkowska-Smith - Loyola University ChicagoJordan Nielsen - Purdue University West LafayetteJingran (Mia) Zhou - Purdue University West LafayetteSally Hedrick - Purdue University West LafayetteJeff Thompson - Brigham Young UniversityKira Franziska Schabram - University of Washington
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2025(1)
- DOI
- 10.5465/AMPROC.2025.13352symposium
- eISSN
- 2151-6561
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2025
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; Epidemiology; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9985027355802771
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