STABLE ANCHORS AND DYNAMIC EVOLUTION: A PARADOX THEORY OF CAREER IDENTITY MAINTENANCE AND CHANGE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sugiyama, Keimei; Ladge, Jamie J.; Dokko, Gina
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Northeastern University; University of Exeter; University of California System; University of California Davis
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2020.0351
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 135-154
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY; social identity; work; self; image; CONSTRUCTION; SENSEMAKING; experience; management; selves

摘要

People routinely conceive of themselves in their career in both stable and dynamic ways. Individuals may draw common threads across their various career experiences and aspirations to form a stable anchor for their career identity, yet, at the same time, dynamically adapt their self-concept in the context of their career. In this paper, we call attention to the anchoring and evolving forces that people experience as a paradox for their career identity and theorize career identifying as an ongoing process of career identity maintenance and change. As individuals contend with career identity tensions, they make adjustments to maintain a balance of anchoring and evolving forces on their career identity or to make shifts that accumulate into career identity change. The career identifying process accounts for both career identity maintenance and change in a single theoretical model that explains how career identity can change over time while being stable enough to make coherent career choices.