POLITICAL DYNAMICS IN ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY BREACH AND RECONSTRUCTION: FINDINGS FROM THE CRISIS IN UNICEF GERMANY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jacobs, Claus D.; Kreutzer, Karin; Vaara, Eero
• 署名单位: University of Bern; University of Bern; European Business School (EBS) University; University of Oxford
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2018.0821
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 948-980
• 关键词: STRATEGIC CHANGE; responses; threats

摘要

This paper elucidates the political dynamics of organizational identity breach and reconstruction. Drawing on the revealing case of UNICEF Germany, we develop a process model of four phases of identity breach and reconstruction: build-up of identity tensions, revelation of identity breach, identity reconstruction, and enactment of the reconstructed identity. Our analysis explains how each phase was characterized by specific political strategies employed by the managerialist and idealist organizational members, the effects of these strategies on the power balance and consensus or conflict over organizational identity, and how particular triggers explain shifts from one phase to another. By so doing, our analysis advances our understanding of organizational identity breach and reconstruction as political processes, and paves the way for new studies of political identity dynamics in other contexts.