Identity Construction in Transient Spaces: Hospitality Work On-Board Cruise Ships

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231 Address correspondence to Dr. Adam Dennett, Department of Logistics, Operations & hospitality Management, BS3/32 Huddersfield Business School, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK. E-mail: a.dennett@hud.ac.uk and motivational components, within individual and social processes, suggesting that identity is a dynamic rather than a static entity (e.g., Tajfel, 1978). Identity is therefore a reflection and reaction to external stimuli, premised on the interaction between an individual (self-identity) and the social structures in which the individual resides at a given time. An individual or a group of individuals make Introduction