Organizational Identity

Organizational Identity presents the classic works on organizational identity alongside more current thinking on the issues.

Ranging from theoretical contributions to empirical studies, the readings in this volume address the key issues of organizational identity, and show how these issues have developed through contributions from such diverse fields of study as sociology, psychology, management studies and cultural studies. The readings examine questions such as how organizations understand who they are, why organizations develop a sense of identity and belonging, where the boundaries of identity lie and the
implications of postmodern and critical theories' challenges to the concept of identity as deeply-rooted and authentic.

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Introduction; SECTION I: THE ROOTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; 1. Society and the Individual; 2. The Self; 3. The Arts of Impression Management; 4. An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict; 5. Who is this 'We'? Levels of Colletive Identity and Self Representations; SECTION II: EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY THEORY; 6. Organizational Identity; 7. Amto-Social Actions of Committed Organizational Participants: An Existential Psychoanalytic Perspective; 8. Social Identity Theory and the Organization; 9. Organization: From Substance to Image?; 10. Keeping an Eye on the Mirror: Image and Identity in Organizational Adaptation; 11. Organizational Impression Management as Reciprocal Influence Process: The Neglected Role of the Organizational Audience; SECTION III: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY THEORY; SECTION III.I: MULTIPLE IDENTITIES; 12. Organizational Dress as a Symbol of Multilayered Social Identities; 13. Breaches in the Boardroom: Organizational Identity and Conflicts of Commitment in a Nonprofit Organization; SECTION III.II: STABILITY AND CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY; 14. Organizational Identity, Image, and Adaptive Instability; 15. The Dynamics of Organizational Identity; SECTION III.III: IDENTITY AS NARRATIVE AND DISCOURSE; 16. Identity Regulation as Organizational Control Producing the Appropriate Individual; 17. Narratives of Individual and Organizational Identities; SECTION III.IV: AUDIENCES FOR IDENTITY; 18. Members' Responses to Organizational Identity Threats: Encountering and Countering the Business Week Rankings; 19. Organizational Identity: Linkages Between Internal and External Communication

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