Identity – The ASQ Blog

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Crosina (2024). Co-Constructing Community and Entrepreneurial Identity: How Founders Ascribe Self-Referential Meanings to Entrepreneurship.

By ASQ BlogFebruary 28, 20250

How do you get a coworking space to treat you like any other tenant? Eliana Crosina describes months of hanging out at OfficeCo, ...

ASQ Podcast

PODCAST: KHESSINA, REIS, & VERHAAL (2021). Stepping out of the Shadows: Identity Exposure as a Remedy for Stigma Transfer Concerns in the Medical Marijuana Market

By Yun Ha ChoJuly 20, 20220

On this episode, Olga Khessina discusses her paper with Samira Reis and Cameron Verhaal on why some medical marijuana producers expose their identities ...

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Caza, Moss, & Vough (2018). From Synchronizing to Harmonizing: The Process of Authenticating Multiple Work Identities

By Luke N. HeddenJanuary 17, 20220

Brianna Caza describes how a paper on multiple jobholding was remade in review: the team returned to the field, collected an entirely new ...

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Bloom, Colbert and Nielsen (2020). Stories of Calling: How Called Professionals Construct Narrative Identities

By Hui SunSeptember 21, 20200

Matt Bloom, Amy Colbert, and Jordan Nielsen distinguish two ways professionals narrate a calling: discerners, who feel destined for one particular kind of ...

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PETRIGLIERI & OBODARU. (2018). Secure-base relationships as drivers of professional identity development in dual-career couples.

By kwjnleeFebruary 21, 20200

Jennifer Petriglieri and Otilia Obodaru assumed 50:50 couples would fare best; they are each in one. Meeting dual-career couples who thrived on unequal ...

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ASQ Interview

Kroezen & Heugens (2018). What Is Dead May Never Die: Institutional Regeneration through Logic Reemergence in Dutch Beer Brewing

By changmelodyJuly 26, 20190

Jochem Kroezen entered a microbrewery project as a self-described quantitative person who knew little beyond Heineken. He recounts how a decade with Dutch ...

ASQ Podcast

PODCAST: Lifshitz-Assaf (2018). Dismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA: The Critical Role of Professional Identity in Open Innovation

By anjalimbhattJanuary 20, 20191

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf admits open innovation initially struck her as unserious: click a button, problem solved. On this podcast episode, she recounts the fieldwork ...

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ASQ Interview

DIBENIGNO (2018). ANCHORED PERSONALIZATION IN MANAGING GOAL CONFLICT BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL GROUPS: THE CASE OF U.S. ARMY MENTAL HEALTH CARE

By winnieyjiangAugust 29, 20180

Julia DiBenigno on comparative ethnography in U.S. Army mental health care: a year of pilot fieldwork across seven posts, then four carefully matched ...

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ASQ Podcast

Podcast: Petriglieri, Petriglieri, & Wood(2018). Fast Tracks and Inner Journeys: Crafting Portable Selves for Contemporary Careers

By amyzhaodingAugust 22, 20180

Gianpiero and Jennifer Petriglieri join the podcast to discuss the nomadic class of workers who move across countries, companies, and functions, and to ...

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Petriglieri, Ashford & Wrzesniewski (2018). Agony and Ecstasy in the Gig Economy: Cultivating Holding Environments for Precarious and Personalized Work Identities

By madelinejkingJuly 19, 20180

Gianpiero Petriglieri, Susan Ashford, and Amy Wrzesniewski wrote about independent workers while working rather like them: often alone, separated by an ocean, trying ...

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ASQ Interview

Ranganathan (2018). The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India

By amyzhaodingFebruary 21, 20180

Why would an Indian artisan charge a discerning customer less? Aruna Ranganathan argues that makers who identify with their work grow attached to ...

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ASQ Interview

Rogers, Corley & Ashforth (2017). Seeing More than Orange: Organizational Respect and Positive Identity Transformation in a Prison Context

By jrcromwellOctober 4, 20170

At a business school award luncheon, Kristie Rogers watched Televerde's CEO credit respect for the success of his inmate-staffed call centers. With Kevin ...

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ASQ Interview

Navis and Glynn (2010). How new market categories emerge: temporal dynamics of legitimacy, identity, and entrepreneurship in satellite radio, 1990-2005

By Pete AcevesFebruary 10, 20161

Chad Navis and Mary Ann Glynn on how satellite radio became a market category, and how they built theory that speaks to both ...

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ASQ Interview

Kim & Jensen (2011). How product order affects market identity repertoire ordering in the US opera market

By cacevesumichOctober 9, 20152

Can an opera company change how audiences see it just by reordering its season? Bo Kyung Kim and Michael Jensen on market identity ...

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ASQ Interview

Clark, Gioia, Ketchen, and Thomas (2010) Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger

By cacevesumichSeptember 24, 20150

Shawn Clark, Dennis Gioia, David Ketchen, and James Thomas discuss transitional identity, the interim sense of what merging organizations are becoming, and why ...

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ASQ Interview

Smith (2011). Identities as Lenses: How Organizational Identity Affects Audiences’ Evaluation of Organizational Performance

By Pete AcevesJanuary 14, 20150

Edward Smith has compared organizations to fishing boats, exotic fruit, and matchmaking markets. He reflects on when a metaphor carries a theory to ...

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ASQ Interview

Cable, Gino, & Staats (2013). Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best: Reframing Socialization around Newcomers’ Authentic Self-expression

By mgmauskapfDecember 8, 20141

Daniel Cable, Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats on what it takes to run a field experiment: mutual curiosity, persistence when things go wrong, ...

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