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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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23693: Eliciting Identity and Identification in Qualitative Research—Tales from the Field

Sunday, July 27, 2025
12:15 - 14:15 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: MR173
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
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Research on identity and identification has exploded in the organizational sciences in recent years, evolving to the point where it is now considered a root construct. Explorations of identity in organizational scholarship span across a myriad of levels—from the personal, to the occupational/professional, to the organizational, and on up to market/industry levels. The use of qualitative methods has been particularly generative for the development and expansion of identity-related theories. In these efforts, a diversity of qualitative methods have been employed to elicit identity and identification. Such methods include the use of archival records, interviews, historical narratives, artifacts, and ethnographic observation. In this professional development workshop, we profess two principal purposes: 1) to survey a variety of qualitative methods for eliciting identity and identification, and 2) to suggest additional and/or supplemental methods of qualitative inquiry that may contribute to the advancement of identity and identification research in the organizational sciences. To do so, we engage a panel of scholars who have employed a wide variety of methods across multiple levels of analysis. Through the lens of their experience, we aim not only to educate our attendees on contemporary approaches to identity and identification research, but also to inspire the next wave of qualitative scholarship.