WEATHERING A META-LEVEL IDENTITY CRISIS: FORGING A COHERENT COLLECTIVE IDENTITY FOR AN EMERGING FIELD

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Patvardhan, Shubha D.; Gioia, Dennis A.; Hamilton, Aimee L.
• 署名单位: University of Delaware; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Denver
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2012.1049
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 405-435
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY; social identity; INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; TOURNAMENT RITUALS; MARKET CATEGORIES; DYNAMICS; LOGICS; configuration; CONSTRUCTION

摘要

We employed a longitudinal, grounded-theory approach to investigate the occurrence of an identity crisis in an emerging collective of organizations attempting to form a new academic field. The findings indicate that legacy identities and the nested structure of such organizations have implications for the formation of identity at this level. Specifically, the co-evolution of organization-level and collective-level identities, and the interdependencies between the levels, rendered the collective identity formation process as multiphased, complex, contentious, and continuously precarious-ultimately leading to an identity crisis that was resolved not by arriving at a consensual identity, but, rather, a coherent identity. The findings contribute to the nascent stream of literature on collective identity beyond the organizational level by explicating identity-work processes involved in the precipitation, manifestation, and resolution of an identity crisis in an emerging field.