Lingering Identities

Wittman, Sarah

doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0090

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“…Similarly, the contemporary work role transition literature has identified a negotiated adaptation pathway in which individuals adapt and reconfigure their identities during role changes (Wittman, 2019). According to Wittman (2019, p. 728), in this pathway, "people refurbish, recombine, and amalgamate their identity structures to craft new identities to match their new roles. "…”

Section: Reincorporation Rites and Identity Achievementmentioning

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“…However, the search and formation of a new identity can be facilitated by building on core athletic skills and beliefs. As described by Wittman (2019) in the work role context, athletes who reincorporate through a negotiated adaptation would not completely disidentify with all aspects of their former identity. Although athletes must be able to come to terms with their former athlete self to adapt to a new identity (Drahota and Eitzen, 1998), they can still retain identity elements (e.g., discipline, confidence, commitment, competition, excitement, and community) that could be connected with new identity elements to create new identity subclusters (e.g., high-public profile jobs, entrepreneurial projects, and high-risk, high-reward businesses, and sport-related education and occupations; Holstein et al, 2015;Lupo et al, 2018;Wittman, 2019;Mateu et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Is There a Reformation Into Identity Achievement for Life After Elite Sport? A Journey of Identity Growth Paradox During Liminal Rites and Identity Moratorium

Wendling

Sagas

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Athletes’ identity development upon retirement from elite sport was examined through a model of self-reformation that integrates and builds on the theoretical underpinnings of identity development and liminality, while advancing seven propositions and supporting conceptual conjectures using findings from research on athletes’ transition out of sport. As some elite athletes lose a salient athletic identity upon retiring from sport, they experience an identity crisis and enter the transition rites feeling in between their former athletic identity and future identity post-sport life, during which a temporary identity moratorium status is needed for identity growth. Given the developmental challenges encountered in moratorium and psychosocial processes necessary to establish a new, fulfilling identity for life after elite sport, we identified key conditions, triggers, and processes that advance how a journey of identity growth paradox experienced during liminality serves as a catalyst toward identity achievement. Elite athletes must be encouraged to persevere in this challenging identity search and delay commitments for as long as it is necessary to achieve identity growth despite experiencing uncomfortable feelings of confusion, void, and ambiguity during the liminal phase. Reforming into an achieved identity for life after elite sport would corroborate the successful navigation of transition, as elite athletes evolved into a synthesized sense of self by cementing, through a negotiated adaptation pathway, constructed identity commitments that will provide new beginnings and meaningful directions to their life after elite sport.

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Section: Reincorporation Rites and Identity Achievementmentioning

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Is There a Reformation Into Identity Achievement for Life After Elite Sport? A Journey of Identity Growth Paradox During Liminal Rites and Identity Moratorium

Wendling

Sagas

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Actions that accelerated the first organizational identity change led to a lingering organizational identity, characterized by cognitive continuity despite ongoing changes. Wittman (2019) has applied the term "lingering" to describe individual identities, premised on former roles, that persist beyond role change; here we extend this term to the organizational level to demarcate a remnant of organizational identity that persists in a supposedly nimble new venture.…”

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Sowing the seeds of failure: Organizational identity dynamics in new venture pivoting

Snihur

Clarysse

2022

Journal of Business Venturing

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“…In this study, we adopt a careers perspective (Burton et al, 2016) to examine how entrepreneurial experience in an earlier career period shapes the turnover behavior of the individual in a subsequent career period. We use identity theory (Ashforth, 2001) and, in particular, recent theoretical work on role transitions and lingering role identities (Wittman, 2019) to explain the relatively high rates of turnover among former entrepreneurs in paid employment.…”

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“…According to our theory, individuals are likely to acquire or reinforce an entrepreneurial identity during their time working as entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs who subsequently enter paid employment are likely, to varying extents, to retain a lingering entrepreneurial identity due to the uncertainty surrounding the challenge of their new role in paid employment and the ongoing possibility of reactivating their previous work role as an entrepreneur (Wittman, 2019).…”

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Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurial identity, job characteristics, and voluntary turnover of former entrepreneurs in paid employment

Feng

Allen

Seibert

2021

Personnel Psychology

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We focus on former entrepreneurs' employment in established firms. Understanding the retention of former entrepreneurs-those who were previously founders of business ventures-is important to firms hoping to reap the benefits of their entrepreneurial experience. We compare the duration of their retention to other employees without entrepreneurial experience and propose a theoretical model in which entrepreneurial identity and job characteristics play a central role. The time-dependent risk of voluntary turnover was estimated using survival analysis. Results from a primary survey collected from multiple firms in 2015-2018 (Study 1) reveal that former entrepreneurs quit sooner than others, and this effect was mediated by entrepreneurial identity. A second study using the NLSY79 and O*Net longitudinal dataset (Study 2) again supports this mediated relationship and further shows that the indirect effect through entrepreneurial identity was moderated such that employees with entrepreneurial identity stayed longer in jobs with favorable characteristics (i.e., high levels of work autonomy and more entrepreneurial opportunities) than other jobs. In Study 2, we were able to observe individuals' careers over decades to capture the patterns of individual mobility-the back-and-forth exploration between businesses owned by self and others. The supplementary analysis provides

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Lingering Identities

Cited by 51 publications

References 104 publications

Is There a Reformation Into Identity Achievement for Life After Elite Sport? A Journey of Identity Growth Paradox During Liminal Rites and Identity Moratorium

Is There a Reformation Into Identity Achievement for Life After Elite Sport? A Journey of Identity Growth Paradox During Liminal Rites and Identity Moratorium

Sowing the seeds of failure: Organizational identity dynamics in new venture pivoting

Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurial identity, job characteristics, and voluntary turnover of former entrepreneurs in paid employment

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