There is an emergent identity work perspective that draws on multiple intertwined streams of established identities and other related theorizing. This perspective is characterized loosely by five broad sets of assumptions: (i) selves are reflexive and identities actively worked on, both in soliloquy and social interaction; (ii) identities are multiple, fluid and rarely fully coherent; (iii) identities are constructed within relations of power; (iv) identities are not helpfully described as either positive or authentic; and (v) identities are both interesting per se and integral to processes of organizing. Recognition of an emergent identity work perspective is valuable in part because this may act as a counterbalance to centrifugal tendencies - fed by myopia, insularity and ethnocentrism - which might otherwise lead to blinkered research and fragmentation. The contribution of this paper is to provide a baseline for identity work scholars, and to promote collective critical reflection on identities in and around organizations.

有一个新兴的身份工作视角，它借鉴了已建立身份和其他相关理论的多个相互交织的流。这种观点大致有五组假设：（i）在自言自语和社会交往中，自我反身并且积极地致力于认同；（ii）身份是多重的，流动的且很少完全连贯；（iii）身份是在权力关系中建构的；（iv）身份不能被正面或真实地描述；（v）身份本身既有趣，又是组织过程不可或缺的一部分。认识到新兴的身份工作观点是有价值的，部分原因是这可以抵消近视眼造成的离心倾向，世俗化和种族中心主义-否则可能会导致眨眼的研究和分裂。本文的作用是为身份研究学者提供基准，并促进对组织内部和周围的身份的集体批判性反思。