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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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18054: Identity Risks, Identity Threat, and Identity Deconstruction in Organizations

Monday, July 28, 2025
12:00 - 13:30 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall D- D1-m2
Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/7bp9q3
This panel symposium aims to stimulate a constructive and thought- provoking discussion on the risks, threats, and the deconstruction of identities in organizations. Individuals hold multiple identities (e.g., professional, leader, follower, gender) that powerfully drive how they feel, think, and act in organizations. How individuals construct these identities is a key process in organizations. Yet, constructing identities comes with risks and may require identity deconstruction, which has been less of a focus in organizational and management research. Anticipated identities, such as a leader identity, can be associated with risks that hold individuals back from endorsing it. Furthermore, already existing identities may be threatened via experiences that can be internally (e.g., believing that some of ones' identities are neglected) or externally (e.g., negative feedback, stereotyping) cued. Identity threats are intense psychological experiences that may activate feared possible selves and can negatively affect individual and group performance. Our panel symposium shifts the scholarly discussion on the risks, threats, and the deconstruction of identities in organizations, discusses different mitigation strategies and draws implications for role-transitions, career-related behaviors, leadership development, and inclusion in organizations.