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Today’s media environment lacks coverage of faith, religion, and spirituality, yet these are important topics in the lives of people around the globe. This article explored the effectiveness of religious and spiritual cues on Jews and the non-religious (atheists and agnostics) in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies examining atheists and agnostics are scant in media research and within the Jewish context. Since people use media to gratify a variety of needs, the article used identity theory and congruity theory to show that religious Jews appreciated both religious and spiritual messaging, while the non-religious favourably responded to the spiritual message alone. The results provide insights for future research and support for greater religious and spiritual coverage in the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The population of women in jail increased by 15% from 2008 to 2018. A portion of this increase was due to state policies shifting individuals serving sentences of 1–5 years to local jails to reduce prison overcrowding. In-depth interviews with 62 women serving long-term sentences in local jails in Central and Eastern Kentucky were conducted to examine how they navigated motherhood in this carceral setting. Findings suggested that despite the salient role that motherhood played in their lives, jails provided few meaningful opportunities for women to perform identity-congruent behaviors or receive verification of their maternal identity. Implications for reintegration, desistance, and theoretically relevant intervention models are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most studies on organisational lean transformation have been conducted in the North-Western hemisphere. This questions the cross-cultural generalisability and understanding of managers' leadership style that is required to effectively guide lean transformations. Our mixed-methods study compares effective Brazilian to Dutch lean managers' behaviours and values and builds on a total of 43 in-depth interviews and 100 surveys with focal managers, their bosses, and subordinates. While self-transcendence and openness-to-change values were similar across cultures, Brazilian lean managers were perceived to show more relations-, change-, and task-oriented behaviours than the Dutch ones. The Brazilian managers also strongly identified with lean leaders, noting that lean values were quite different from Brazilian ones. Thus, Identity Theory is introduced to explain these striking differences and three propositions are formulated to guide future longitudinal mixed-methods research across the globe. Multinational organisations are advised to build a strong 'lean identity' across their plants to stimulate lean-leadership development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the use of the Estonian language in the works of poet Igor Severyanin (Igor Vasilyevich Lotaryov, 4 May [16 May] 1887, St. Petersburg - 20 December 1941, Tallinn). The opening section provides background: the birth of the Republic of Estonia and the poet's permanent relocation to Estonia at the age of 30 occurred almost simultaneously. Memoirs from the time reveal a myth portraying Severyanin as lacking a talent for languages, claiming he never mastered Estonian. This article challenges that myth and argues the opposite. Severyanin's efforts were directed at deeply rooting himself in Estonia: acquiring Estonian citizenship, maintaining close relationships with Estonian writers, collaborating with the Estonian Cultural Endowment, marrying an Estonian, befriending the Henrik Visnapuu family, translating Estonian literature into Russian, and incorporating Estonian words into his Russian-language works. The article examines Severyanin's linguistic experiments in Estonian through the lens of Olivia García's concept of translanguaging, moving towards an analysis of the poet's identity. The study draws on Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of "polyphony", Homi K. Bhabha's concept of the "Third Space", and Wolfgang Welsch's idea of "transculturality". The aim is to demonstrate the existence of a hybrid identity through Severyanin's translanguaging (and emerging bilingualism). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper makes the case that an operation whose function expresses subjectivity can be formalised outside of identity stipulations. This operation is best characterised by poetic computation: a function that maps modes of expression to their respective contexts of application, i.e. from a domain of selection to one of composition. This move, I feel, eludes the failings endemic to the presuppositions required by and that undergird traditional logics of identity: one-to-one correspondence between name and thing, regardless of context. This expressive mechanism, indicative of the activity of the subject in itself, is non-representational. This framing accounts for how its operation goes on to produce the various ‘representations’ that are identified as, but not interchangeable with, that subject. These expressions are dependent upon the multitude of contexts that subject inhabits. I ask, how is it possible to present a theory of subjectivity without a reliance on identity? My hope is to show how something non-representational can be understood by way of the representations it produces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how Southeast Asian American students develop their ethnoracial identities at an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) and a non-AANAPISI, and if there are differences between the two institutions. Drawing on interviews with 26 Southeast Asian American undergraduate students, I find that students use three outlets at both institutions to further develop their ethnoracial identities: 1) Asian American Studies or related courses, 2) ethnoracial student organizations, and 3) ethnoracial events. However, these outlets provided students with a different type of ethnoracial identity development – political ethnoracial identity or social ethnoracial identity. Those that did not participate in these outlets had a colorblind ethnoracial identity as they still acknowledged their ethnoracial identities but did not view race or racism as relevant. The AANAPISI designation did not matter in the parameters of this study, as there were no differences for students at both institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Past research has shown there is a relationship between body image, sexual behavior, and pleasure. However, the majority of this research has centered on heterosexual participants. In this analysis, the author considers how this relationship between body image, sexual behavior, and pleasure may look within women and genderqueer individuals who are all AFAB (assigned female at birth) with 26 out of 30 participants identifying as LGBTQIA+. The author examines perceptions of body size, body hair, and genitals to consider how intersections of social structures - specifically internalized sexism, racism, and misogyny - influence the participants' experience of sexual interactions. Both resistance and embodiment of traditional gender norms, even as queer women and genderqueer individuals, were examined in these narratives. The majority of the moments where traditional gender norms are examined describe situations when the participants were sexually interacting with cis-gendered men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on qualitative data from a large study exploring Muslim experiences in the workplace, this chapter explains how Muslim dress standards inform identity and are influenced by US cultural ideals about self-presentation and perceived anti-Muslim hostility. Theoretical sampling was used to find 25 men and 59 women, 32 of whom are veiled. These individuals worked at major corporations as numerical minorities or held professions where they encountered non-Muslims regularly. Informed by theories of orientalism and social identity, findings examine hegemonic representations of organizational power and describe how men could employ masculine practices to navigate anti-Muslim discourse and foster a sense of belonging at work. Within immigrant-centered workplaces, women face cultural backlash for appropriating Western styles deemed immodest. While working outside their community, women who wore hijabs emphasized their femininity through softer colors, makeup, or "unpinning" their veil to offset the visceral reaction to their hijab. Thus, adapting to workplace dress expectations is structured by intersections of gender, religion, and workplace location. This chapter illustrates how Muslim dress strategies indirectly reflect how Western standards of dress, behavior, and self-expression determine qualifications and approachability within workplace structures, marginalizing Muslims and reproducing racial and gender hierarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the use of the Estonian language in the works of poet Igor Severyanin (Igor Vasilyevich Lotaryov, 4 May [16 May] 1887, St. Petersburg – 20 December 1941, Tallinn). The opening section provides background: the birth of the Republic of Estonia and the poet’s permanent relocation to Estonia at the age of 30 occurred almost simultaneously. Memoirs from the time reveal a myth portraying Severyanin as lacking a talent for languages, claiming he never mastered Estonian. This article challenges that myth and argues the opposite. Severyanin’s efforts were directed at deeply rooting himself in Estonia: acquiring Estonian citizenship, maintaining close relationships with Estonian writers, collaborating with the Estonian Cultural Endowment, marrying an Estonian, befriending the Henrik Visnapuu family, translating Estonian literature into Russian, and incorporating Estonian words into his Russian-language works. The article examines Severyanin’s linguistic experiments in Estonian through the lens of Olivia García’s concept of translanguaging, moving towards an analysis of the poet’s identity. The study draws on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of “polyphony”, Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of the “Third Space”, and Wolfgang Welsch’s idea of “transculturality”. The aim is to demonstrate the existence of a hybrid identity through Severyanin’s translanguaging (and emerging bilingualism).

Many organizations seek to embed their employees by fostering strong bonds between the employees and their work. Although this typically helps organizations retain employees, identity theory suggests that job embeddedness may amplify strain that results from impediments to employee's perceived role fulfillment and self-identity. We propose that embedded employees have high work identity salience that may be threatened when managers put their own interests before that of the organization or other employees (i.e., perception of organizational politics). Using data from a sample of 382 South Korean employees who provided data over 1 year, we found that embedded employees, when faced with organizational politics, reported more job search behavior, and in turn, a greater likelihood of turnover behavior. However, this finding did not extend to a nonrole-inhibiting stressor (i.e., workload), such that it seems unlikely this finding applies broadly across stressors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We inquire whether commitment to employment has an immediate suppressive effect (i.e., in the next month) on street crime. Analysis of retrospective monthly calendar data drawn from a random sample of prisoners reveals that it does not. In contrast, paycheck work co-occurs with income generating crime in almost half of the months in which participants are employed. Second, paycheck work is associated with an increase in the likelihood of subsequent drug selling and bears no association with violent or property offenses. Third, job commitment is associated with greater odds of drug selling. Finally, hours worked does exert an immediate suppressive effect on drug selling and violent crime, but the effects are relatively small and do not challenge our main conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many theories of motivation recognize a person's identity adds value to the prediction of behavior; albeit indirectly, through constructs such as social norms, self-efficacy, perceived behavioral control, and values. Recently, behavioral research has more directly assessed the influence of identity on behavior; however, it is unclear whether such research aligns with the theoretical establishments of identity. This review investigated the identity theory alignment of existing behavior research by systematically searching, screening, and reviewing identity-behavior relevant papers, across three behavioral psychology databases. Twenty-three papers meet the inclusion criteria for review (original research with a primary focus on identity and behavior, within healthy adult population), and data relating to identity-behavior theoretical viewpoints, research methods, and study findings were extracted and synthesized to provide a scoping overview of current research. Most reviewed papers presented identity as a loosely defined construct; commonly operationalized as social identity, omitting the theorized multiplicity of social and self-identities. Overall outcomes suggested that identity influences behavior indirectly through intention strength, rather than directly as a post-intention mechanism. While existing research has been crucial in illuminating potential influences of identity on behavior, there is a need to strengthen current understandings and theoretical alignments within future research relating to identity and behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses identity theory to explain the link between public servants' role perceptions, collaboration and performance. A longitudinal survey (N = 522) shows that the more public servants rely on a Weberian role perception, the more they focus on internal collaboration in performing their work, whereas the more public servants adopt a networking role perception the more they use external collaboration in order to enhance their performance. Further, an entrepreneurial role perception influences performance directly. This study empirically shows that public servants with various role perceptions all engage in forms of collaborative behaviour that benefit their performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the birth of a child, employed mothers must make return‐to‐work and breastfeeding decisions. Prior organizational research focuses on how the mother's work environment affects these decisions, yet they are made with personal and relationship considerations in mind. We use the work‐home resources model and identity theory to address two pressing questions. First, do mothers' identity and fathers' paternity leave provide resources for supporting breastfeeding and return to work? Second, can mothers' separation anxiety help explain the psychological mechanisms for this process? We expect more work‐centric mothers and those whose partners take longer leaves to have lower maternal separation anxiety, and thereby shorter maternity leave length and shorter breastfeeding duration. We leverage the National Institute of Child Health and Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. We conducted analyses using data from 491 families and nine time points from childbirth to 3 years post birth. Consistent with the work‐home resources model, the father's leave length is negatively related to mother's separation anxiety, which is positively related to her leave length. We also found that the father's leave length is directly and positively related to mother's leave length and breastfeeding duration, and the mother's work centrality is negatively related to her leave length. We explain how these results fit into the work‐home resources model and suggest organizations should provide mothers with control over return‐to‐work decisions and encourage longer paternity leave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simultaneous to the sport industry's economic surge, physical health has become an issue of growing societal concern. Fandom and health consciousness have concurrently emerged, yet scholars have not explored the social–psychological relationship between the two. To this end, we conducted semistructured, in-depth interviews with 17 self-identified health-conscious sport fans. We leverage identity theory to highlight these individuals' "identity work." Participants' experiences were reflective of both identity conflict and identity integration. The outcome that manifested—conflict or integration—appeared to hinge on psychological and sociological variables. In sharing their stories, we contribute to a growing literature on role identity negotiation in sport fandom, in addition to providing insights on health-minded sport fans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social Entrepreneurship is a popular business model that proposes entrepreneurship to solve social and environmental problems by selling products or services. In Indonesia, the development of the number and awareness of entrepreneurs supported by the Social Entrepreneurship ecosystem is growing. However, due to the need for a unified definition of 'Social Entrepreneurship' and the slow pace of formal recognition from the government, organizations have developed with mixed practices and results. This study aims to describe the practice of Social Enterprise through the disclosure of corporate identity. Using Identity and Stakeholder Theory, this study explores the five characteristics of identity: mission, activity, governance, performance, and accountability. This multiple case study uses 10 Indonesian Social Enterprises. Data was collected through interviews and speeches in webinars coupled with documentation studies of uploaded narratives, photos, and videos on the company's official website, carried out from March to June 2023. Data analysis uses Nvivo to find themes from various Social Enterprise identity criteria groups. The results show that Social Enterprise has a unique mission and activities that carry a social value where community, empowerment, welfare and sustainability are more emphasized than profit. Institutional commitment as a Social Enterprise is proven by disclosing the impact achieved through impact reports, impact achievement profiles, SDG achievements, or articles in the news column. However, Financial performance is rarely disclosed, even though several companies have disclosed the distribution of their profits. Accountability practice in formal and informal to its stakeholder. This study provides guidelines for how companies disclose and be accountable for their identity as a Social Enterprise.

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted relationships between religious communities and the state. Churches, religious authorities, and believers have been obligated to modify key activities (prayer, ceremonies) and weigh their religious identity against state prohibitions. Accordingly, we ask how members of a reclusive religious community negotiated and performed their identity under a prolonged emergency. We analyse intra-communal discourse concerning the state's social distancing regulations during Covid-19 outbreaks and lockdowns that occurred in closed groups in messaging apps. Specifically, this research case-studies Jewish ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel (Haredim). Extensive analysis of over 2,000 WhatsApp and Telegram posts in 35 ultra-Orthodox groups over a two-year period indicates that participants constantly sought to affirm their primary, dominant, communal identity. While efforts to integrate adherence to state prohibitions into this primary identity were evident, these efforts were well accepted only when justifying them via affirmation of the communal identity – superseding medical, political, and practical concerns. The findings advance understanding of minority groups' attitudes towards state directives and illuminate contemporary pathways of identity dynamics in online social networks. The findings may also be applicable in a broader sense to the study of discourse dynamics in echo chambers and filter bubbles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Despite to useful relevance to better understand how group-level identity develops, few studies have explored the identity theory in the esports field and, in particular, considering the impact of a fan's role identity. The current study aims to explore esports fan role-identity vis-à-vis the relationship with the sponsor and the sponsee so as to understand the effects on their behavioral intentions. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of 356 esports fans who attended the 2021 FPF eFootball Open Challenge, a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) analyzed the psychometric properties of the constructs and a subsequent Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) examined the effects of fan identity on two types of behavioral intentions and sponsor–sponsee relationship. Findings: Results indicate that fans who highly identify with esports have the highest attachment to the event and tend toward having a positive word-of-mouth intention. Esports fans who have a higher brand identification reported a positive attitude toward the event's sponsor brand and tend to purchase its products. Moreover, the study findings also provide evidence of the bidirectional interaction between the way in which fans attach with the esports event and its sponsor brand, leading to greater reciprocity in their identity formation. Originality/value: This study helps to understand how the fan identity process can enhance its fate and develop mutually, building role overlapping identity in the esports sponsor–sponsee relationship. Complementarily, it supports of how the marketeers and managers must analyze the importance of being a fan to the individual in order to understand how its self-identity can shape the future behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The simultaneous global growth in higher education's student population and demand for English-medium instruction (EMI) have created various models of transnational education (TNE) partnerships that use EMI to recruit students and increase opportunities for international collaboration. Inevitably, in transnational collaborative efforts, stakeholders have far more conflicting considerations as they navigate multiple countries' academic policies and norms, diverse student, staff and faculty expectations, and the myriad of linguistic and cultural differences. In response to these concerns, this qualitative case study analyzed instructor discursive positioning in a TNE partnership between a US and a Vietnamese institution. Using a collaborative action research approach, this article features the experience of two instructors teaching in a TNE partnership using an EMI model in Vietnam. Using identity and positioning theory as guiding theoretical frameworks, instructors' and students' discourses were thematically analyzed. The findings reflect dominant discourses and language ideologies surrounding the "Englishization" of higher education, in addition to highlighting stakeholders' challenges of working between two institutions and having conflicting responsibilities as both instructors and administrative staff. Similarly, the students' interview data reflected their navigation of being participants at two universities with different academic systems and norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advent of ‘digital’ ways of working and organising is unequivocally transforming the very fabric of work, leading to an increasingly uncertain, unsettled, and fluid environment. Research has traditionally anchored worker identity in fixed and place-bound concepts. However, in the digital workplace, where work is more akin to a performance, unfolding over time, and processual in nature, our understanding of work and theories of worker identity are called into question. In this paper, we ask the question: how is digital worker identity performed in such fluid and unsettled work settings? To explain digital worker identity performance, we investigate digital nomadism as an extremely fluid and unsettled case of digital work. We study digital nomads, high-skilled professionals who use digital technologies to work remotely and lead a nomadic lifestyle, in a multi-sited ethnographic field study. Based on a process-relational perspective, we are theorising how the identity of digital nomads, their “becoming,” is performed as an ongoing process along lines of identity performance. This is an intermediate “product of theorising,” in accord with the aim of the special issue, but provides a foundation for a novel process-relational theory of identity performance in unsettled digital work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Orientation: Coaching facilitates identity work, and metaphors are often used in coaching to make sense of the self. Research purpose: To explore coaching clients’ coaching experience as expressed through metaphors, from an identity work perspective. Motivation for the study: The use of metaphor in coaching has not been realised, and coaching as a vehicle for identity work is underexplored. Research approach/design and method: A hermeneutic phenomenological methodology and qualitative design directed the study. Face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven clients who had participated in a coaching programme. Reflective metaphors from the interviews constituted the data set, which was analysed through hermeneutic phenomenological analysis. Main findings: Guided by identity theory, four themes were co-constructed from the data, which describe how coaching develops a self-processing competence reflected in these iterative cycles: (1) self-exploration and self-reflection; (2) self-awareness and self-insight; (3) self-acceptance and self-determination; and (4) self-actualisation and self-transcendence. These cycles of identity work align with transactional and transformational identity work to enable construction of an independent and interdependent self. Practical/managerial implications: The findings highlight the value of metaphors as a self-reflective sensemaking tool. Coaching is aligned with integrated transactional and transformational identity work, which can be used to assess the transformational value of coaching as a process. Contribution/value-add: The study describes the personal transformational value of coaching through metaphors, and it establishes identity work as a key process outcome of successful coaching. The findings offer a novel conceptualisation of transactional and transformational identity work as a process perspective to effective coaching.

In 1966, Leroi Jones, soon to be Amiri Baraka, outline​d​ a program to reorient the philosophical underpinnings of ​Black study. Modes of inhabiting and thereby constructing the domains in which one participates were revealed as a function of one’s mode of expression. ​Jones/Baraka proposed that blackness ​was expressed by ​the operation of a collective improvisation. How​​ can improvisation, traditionally conceived as an individual activity, be a collective process? Taking our cue from articulation theory and the request that it be formalized by Stuart ​H​all, we explore what may superficially seem counter-intuitive but​ is able to be modeled​ ​by way of an explanation of its generative syntactic structure. In so doing, puzzles associated with identity theory, intersubjectivity, and ​modalities​ of expression are revealed as not ​as intractable​ as they are assumed to be, especially​ with​in​ the discipline of Black studies.

Identity is among of the most common explanations for political outcomes. Despite this, studies of politics often fail to clearly conceptualize or define identity, leading to tremendous variation in the use and application of the concept, much of which is at odds with fundamental tenets of research on the topic. Decades of research in psychology, sociology, and political psychology inform a family of related theories referred to as "Social Identity Theory" (SIT) which demonstrates that identity requires three conditions in order to affect attitudes and behavior: cognitive classification, psychological attachment to the group, and a social context that causes a group identity to become salient. In this paper, we build on these conditions to develop a typology to help identify when and for whom identity should be politically consequential. Using national election data from 2012, 2016 and 2020 we show that failing to differentiate between these concepts, particularly what we call Descriptive and Substantive identity, can lead to mistaken inferences about the behavior of identity groups in politics. Applying insights from SIT also promises to help advance an improved understanding of questions of race, representation, and intersectionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars have begun exploring how parenthood impacts individuals' sport fandom. Limited work to date, however, has considered such a question in light of new parenthood. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine how new parent sport fans negotiate their multiple identities. To this end, I completed semi-structured long interviews with 27 sport fans with young children (i.e., individuals presently raising children of age 0–6 years). Drawing on the social–psychological foundations of identity theory, I examined these new parents' salience hierarchy negotiation. I identified and analyzed two consumer groups: Maintainers (who have sustained the centrality of their fan identity despite a change in life circumstances) and Modifiers (who have "de-escalated" their fandom). These new parents' voices are used to guide the findings. This study advances the theoretical understanding of how parenthood impacts fandom and illuminates how the sport industry can optimally serve new parent sport fans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper extends a relational theory of the interconnection between morality, identity, and emotion. We argue that interactional identification with others is central to the development of the moral self, which begins early in childhood as we become the object of the emotional-evaluative attitude of others––becoming a subject to ourselves––while also identifying with others and with the values they embody. This position is extended in contrast to social philosophical ideas of morality and identity, central to which is the notion of narrative identity, and to sociological social psychology where identity theory is taken to be pivotal to understanding the self as driven by the need for verification. In our view, neither of these approaches sufficiently recognise how moral identities are moulded within social relations, interactions, and the identifications these engender. Nor do they take adequate account of the embodied, emotional and intuitional basis of moral identity. We draw on G. H. Mead's theory of the self and moral socialisation to provide a theory of moral selfhood formed within social relations and interactions, while extending his arguments via insight from C. H. Cooley and M. M. Bakhtin to give greater attention to emotional evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many theories of motivation recognize a person's identity adds value to the prediction of behavior; albeit indirectly, through constructs such as social norms, self-efficacy, perceived behavioral control, and values. Recently, behavioral research has more directly assessed the influence of identity on behavior; however, it is unclear whether such research aligns with the theoretical establishments of identity. This review investigated the identity theory alignment of existing behavior research by systematically searching, screening, and reviewing identity-behavior relevant papers, across three behavioral psychology databases. Twenty-three papers meet the inclusion criteria for review (original research with a primary focus on identity and behavior, within healthy adult population), and data relating to identity-behavior theoretical viewpoints, research methods, and study findings were extracted and synthesized to provide a scoping overview of current research. Most reviewed papers presented identity as a loosely defined construct; commonly operationalized as social identity, omitting the theorized multiplicity of social and self-identities. Overall outcomes suggested that identity influences behavior indirectly through intention strength, rather than directly as a post-intention mechanism. While existing research has been crucial in illuminating potential influences of identity on behavior, there is a need to strengthen current understandings and theoretical alignments within future research relating to identity and behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the extensive research on the board of directors and its oversight role, the evidence on why board members behave in certain ways is inconclusive due to the limited literature on the socio-behavioral aspects. Identity theory and social identity theory assume that directors identify with multiple identities and social groups, and that the convergence or divergence of these different identifications determines how they behave in their board oversight roles. Therefore, the purpose of this scoping review is to identify and map the evidence available from this perspective, provide key findings and gaps. We found similar antecedents to identification to multiple identities and social groups among the board of directors are discussed. In particular, the three major antecedents are (1) self-categorization, (2) self-enhancements, and (3) out-group salience. These antecedents have been shown to enhance identifications and influence director behavior in relation to their board oversight roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why did Kazakhstan, as an authoritarian post-Soviet state with moderate economic performance, become an Official Development Assistance (ODA) donor? In this article, we argue that state identity has a causal and constitutive effect on Kazakhstan's foreign policy through discursive development encounters between Kazakhstani state actors and representatives of the international development community. The research questions are addressed by applying discourse analysis to official documents and media articles from Kazakhstan and international sources, along with the ODA dataset collected during fieldwork, focusing on 2013-2019. The article concludes by stating that Kazakhstan's decision to become an ODA donor is primarily motivated by the political elite's desire to boost national prestige and patriotic spirit among the population through the implementation of the domestic development program "Kazakhstan 2050," which would include the country on a list of 30 developed countries, the condition of which is to provide and institutionalize ODA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Those who participate in engineering are often assumed to be smart by others. At the same time, the cultural construction of what counts as “smart” is biased and therefore functions as a barrier to broadening participation in engineering. While considerable work has been done to understand engineering identity, how students understand themselves as smart is rarely made explicit in engineering identity research. Purpose: This paper is a theoretical discussion which highlights the need for engineering identity research to integrate students’ understanding of themselves as smart. By not incorporating students’ understanding of themselves as smart explicitly in work on engineering identity, we allow the bias in what gets recognized as smart to remain implicit and oppressive. Scope: In this paper, we argue that the idea of smart is very salient in engineering contexts and contributes to inequity. Then, we demonstrate how three different framings of identity allow for the explicit integration of how students are understanding themselves as smart. We also present selected examples from our empirical data to illustrate the concrete ways in which students’ understandings of themselves as smart manifest in an engineering context. Conclusions: We provided explicit opportunities for researchers to integrate students’ understandings of themselves as smart across three different framings of identity and how such understanding has shown up in our empirical research. In doing so, we conclude that making “smart” explicit in engineering identity provides a way to understand the exclusionary nature of engineering, and a new lens to apply when considering efforts to broaden participation in engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For most nonprofits, their effectiveness, sustainability, and survival all depend on the willingness of individuals to behave in prosocial ways, for example, by giving time, money, and/or resources to various organizations and causes. Scholars have, therefore, long sought to identify predictors of prosocial behaviors; and, one consistently significant variable in this quest has been prosocial role identity. Indeed, the strength of this identity, studies have shown, positively predicts participation in a variety of prosocial activities. Despite this significance, research on service-learning, a widely utilized pedagogical practice intended to prepare prosocially active and engaged citizens, has been largely disconnected from the literature on identity motivated behavior. Yet, this literature provides a strong conceptual foundation for understanding why, when, how, and for whom participation in service-learning will be associated with positive changes in prosocial identities—and, ultimately sustained participation in role-related prosocial behaviors. In this article, we connect these literatures and propose a model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Working conditions of knowledge workers have been subject to rapid change recently. Digital nomadism is no longer a phenomenon that relates only to entrepreneurs, freelancers, and gig workers. Corporate employees, too, have begun to uncouple their work from stationary (home) offices and 9-to-5 schedules. However, pursuing a permanent job in a corporate environment is still subject to fundamentally different values than postulated by the original notion of digital nomadism. Therefore, this paper explores the work identity of what is referred to as 'corporate nomads'. By drawing on identity theory and the results of semi-structured interviews, the paper proposes a conceptualization of the corporate nomad archetype and presents nine salient identity issues of corporate nomads (e.g., holding multiple contradictory identities, the flexibility paradox, or collaboration constraints). By introducing the 'corporate nomad' archetype to the Information Systems literature, this article helps to rethink established conceptions of "home office" and socio-spatial configurations of knowledge work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic upended countless lives all over the world. Considerable research has shown that women’s career progression has been more negatively impacted by the pandemic than men’s, especially in the wake of school closures and increased childcare responsibilities. In order to understand more deeply the impact of the pandemic on women’s careers, a large mixed-method survey was conducted in Utah, a western state in the United States. This article reports on the responses of 2564 respondents to one of three open-ended questions taken from the overall survey, namely: “How has the pandemic impacted your career advancement experiences and opportunities over the short term and longer term?” The article frames the findings of this question by outlining workplace conditions and structures that contributed to women not advancing prior to the pandemic and applies the lenses of identity theory and systems psychodynamic theory to illustrate tendencies for workers and organizations to maintain the gendered dynamics that impede women’s career advancement. Findings included 59.1 percent of respondents who described a negative effect on their career advancement caused by the pandemic. Overarching themes and sub-themes were identified from these negative effects. Overarching themes included: (1) “Everything is on hold”; (2) “Lost or relinquished opportunity”; (3) “Reevaluation of Career”; and (4) “Experiences by Characteristics.” The latter theme highlighted unique experiences women faced versus men and manifested the gendered dynamics identified by identity and psychodynamic theories. Findings highlighted the importance of making workplace changes such as more flexible work and/or hybrid work arrangements, improved leave policies, the provision of childcare and other support services, and government policies that eliminate gendered barriers to women’s career advancement.

Yanping Gong,1 Chunyan Chen,1,2 Xiuyuan Tang,3 Jun Xiao1 1School of Business, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Business Administration, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China; 3School of Business, Hunan Women’s University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Xiuyuan Tang, School of Business, Hunan Women’s University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China, Email tangxy0708@163.comPurpose: The adverse effects of work-to-family conflict in occupational health fields have been widely concerned. However, we do not yet know whether and how work-to-family conflict affects people’s consumption behavior. This study used identity theory as the conceptual framework to test the hidden link between work-to-family conflict and conspicuous consumption, the possible underlying mechanism of status anxiety, and the boundary condition of work-family centrality.Methods: We conducted two quantitative studies to test the hypotheses. Study 1 used a cross-sectional survey (N = 486) to test the relationship between work-to-family conflict and conspicuous consumption and the mechanism of the relationship. Study 2 used a 10-day daily diary survey (Nbetween = 100, Nwithin = 776) to duplicate the results of Study 1 and further test the moderating effect of work-family centrality.Results: We found that work-to-family conflict was positively related to conspicuous consumption, and this relationship was mediated by increased status anxiety. Moreover, this mediating effect was more substantial for employees with lower work-family centrality.Conclusion: This research is the first to link work-to-family conflict and conspicuous consumption theoretically and empirically. The findings supported identity theory, adding new knowledge to the consequences of work-to-family conflict and contributing to organizations’ prevention and intervention programs on behavioral health issues in work-family conflict.Keywords: work-to-family conflict, status anxiety, work-family centrality, conspicuous consumption, identity theory, daily diary study