Before Identity: The Emergence of New Organizational Forms

C. Marlene Fiol () and Elaine Romanelli ()
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C. Marlene Fiol: Business School, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217
Elaine Romanelli: McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057

Organization Science, 2012, vol. 23, issue 3, 597-611

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: organizational form; organizational identity and identification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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