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

(Re)Constructing Career Strategies After Experiencing Involuntary Job Loss

“…The relevance of narrative inquiry for careers research is in its ability to assist people to make sense of their experiences, decisions and transitions (Blustein et al, 2013;Ezzy, 2000). Telling stories of these experiences aids identity (re)construction because narrating the self changes the self (Creed et al, 2010;Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010).…”

“…Giddens, 1991;Holland & Thomson, 2009;Thomson et al, 2002). Second, research also indicates that such transformation has material consequences for career identity, including, for example, how people deal with organizational restructuring (Walton & Mallon, 2004), work and working life transitions (Billett & Pavlova, 2005), role changes (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010) and job changes (Lindgren & Wåhlin, 2001).…”

“…The second attends to narrative constructions of identity and career experiences (see e.g. Bujold, 2004;Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010), particularly focusing on the strategies employed by former professionals as they interpret and (re)construct their career experiences and career success stories in an attempt to make sense of their job loss (Gabriel et al, 2010).…”

Entrepreneurial Cognition

“…By sharing a new identity with others, the individual not only gets feedback, but those others can also aid in coproducing a more conceivable version of the identity by supporting particular features, adding new information, and facilitating the establishment of middle ground (Boje 1991;Conroy and O'Leary-Kelly 2014;Ibarra and Barbulescu 2010;Polletta and Lee 2006). Role models are a particularly important source of social validation for an alternative work identity Ibarra 1999;Pratt et al 2006).…”

Entrepreneurial Identity

“…By sharing a new identity with others, the individual not only gets feedback, but those others can also aid in coproducing a more conceivable version of the identity by supporting particular features, adding new information, and facilitating the establishment of middle ground (Boje 1991;Conroy and O'Leary-Kelly 2014;Ibarra and Barbulescu 2010;Polletta and Lee 2006). Role models are a particularly important source of social validation for an alternative work identity (Ashforth 2001;Ibarra 1999;Pratt et al 2006).…”