- The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Organizational Identity: mapping where we have been, where we are, and where we might go
- Great Debates in Organizational Identity Study
- Measuring Organizational Identity: taking stock and looking forward
- Organizational Identity, Culture, and Image
- Organizational, Subunit, and Individual Identities: multilevel linkages
- Organizational Identity Change and Temporality
- Hybrid and Multiple Organizational Identities
- Organizational Identity and Organizational Identity Work as Valuable Analytical Resources
- Organizational Identity: the significance of power and politics
- Organizational Identity: a critique
- Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: an integrative framework for understanding the balance between differentiation and conformity in individual and organizational identities
- Bridging and Integrating Theories on Organizational Identity: a social interactionist model of organizational identity formation and change
- How Do We Communicate Who We Are?: examining how organizational identity is conveyed to members
- Mobilizing Organizational Action Against Identity Threats: the role of organizational members’ perceptions and responses
- Organizational Identity and the Undesired Self
- Organizational Identity Work
- Re-Membering: rhetorical history as identity work
- Materiality and Identity: how organizational products, artifacts, and practices instantiate organizational identity
- Making Sense of Who We Are: leadership and organizational identity
- Organizational Identity in Institutional Theory: taking stock and moving forward
- Institutional Pluralism, Inhabitants, and the Construction of Organizational and Personal Identities
- Organizational Identity and Institutional Forces: toward an integrative framework
- Organizational Identity and Innovation
- Planned Organizational Identity Change: insights from practice
- Identity Construction in Mergers and Acquisitions: a discursive sensemaking perspective
- Fostering Stakeholder Identification Through Expressed Organizational Identities
- Conclusion: On the Identity of Organizational Identity looking backward toward the future
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
The concept of organizational identity is often confused with similar concepts such as organizational culture or organizational image. This confusion depends in part on the inconsistent use that scholars have made of these terms in the past. This chapter reviews the literature that has discussed how these concepts differ and how they are interrelated, and proposes an integrative framework that summarizes the most widely accepted definitions. It focuses in particular on research on dynamic interrelations between organizational identity and culture. It argues that apparently contradictory perspectives—conceiving of culture as a referent for identity vs. identity as facilitating contextual understanding for cultural norms—can be reconciled by acknowledging the dual nature of organizational identity as being constituted by social categories and organization-specific features, and the temporal dynamism that characterizes the relationship between culture and identity.
Keywords: organizational identity, organizational image, organizational culture
Bocconi University
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- The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Organizational Identity: mapping where we have been, where we are, and where we might go
- Great Debates in Organizational Identity Study
- Measuring Organizational Identity: taking stock and looking forward
- Organizational Identity, Culture, and Image
- Organizational, Subunit, and Individual Identities: multilevel linkages
- Organizational Identity Change and Temporality
- Hybrid and Multiple Organizational Identities
- Organizational Identity and Organizational Identity Work as Valuable Analytical Resources
- Organizational Identity: the significance of power and politics
- Organizational Identity: a critique
- Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: an integrative framework for understanding the balance between differentiation and conformity in individual and organizational identities
- Bridging and Integrating Theories on Organizational Identity: a social interactionist model of organizational identity formation and change
- How Do We Communicate Who We Are?: examining how organizational identity is conveyed to members
- Mobilizing Organizational Action Against Identity Threats: the role of organizational members’ perceptions and responses
- Organizational Identity and the Undesired Self
- Organizational Identity Work
- Re-Membering: rhetorical history as identity work
- Materiality and Identity: how organizational products, artifacts, and practices instantiate organizational identity
- Making Sense of Who We Are: leadership and organizational identity
- Organizational Identity in Institutional Theory: taking stock and moving forward
- Institutional Pluralism, Inhabitants, and the Construction of Organizational and Personal Identities
- Organizational Identity and Institutional Forces: toward an integrative framework
- Organizational Identity and Innovation
- Planned Organizational Identity Change: insights from practice
- Identity Construction in Mergers and Acquisitions: a discursive sensemaking perspective
- Fostering Stakeholder Identification Through Expressed Organizational Identities
- Conclusion: On the Identity of Organizational Identity looking backward toward the future
- Author Index
- Subject Index
