Before Identity: The Emergence of New Organizational Forms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fiol, C. Marlene; Romanelli, Elaine
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; Georgetown University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0666
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 597-611
• 关键词: organizational form; organizational identity and identification

摘要

The evolution of new organizational forms has attracted growing theoretical and empirical attention, but little research has considered the microsocial processes that promote the emergence of groups of quasi-similar organizations that sometimes evolve into new organizational forms. Drawing from social psychological and sociological theories of identity formation, we explain processes of individual identification and collective identity development that precede and promote the formation of similar clusters, which audiences can then recognize and distinguish from established organizational populations and other emerging similarity clusters.