Defining Who You Are By What You're Not: Organizational Disidentification and The National Rifle Association

By Kimberly D. Elsbach, C. Bhattacharya. 2001

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Struggling with Lack: A Lacanian Perspective on Organizational Identity (2009, background): “A single and clearly definable identity is also thought to enhance loyalty, member commitment, and identification, creating a sense of belonging and providing an anchor in turbulent times that organizational members not only become attached to but will go to some lengths to defend (Brickson 2005; Co”
Consumer responses to corporate social irresponsibility: The role of moral emotions, evaluations, and social cognitions (2019, background): “Elsbach and Bhattacharya (2001) show that CSI action leads to consumer dis-identification with the firm. Vaaland et al. (2008) review 54 articles on CSR and CSI in the field of marketing and find that CSI actions generally influence consumer company evaluations and lead to consumer negative attitude”
Reputation as a Benefit and a Burden? How Stakeholders’ Organizational Identification Affects the Role of Reputation Following a Negative Event (2016, background): “…cause of a negative event tosituational factors, rather thanassignblameto the organization (Hofmann & Stetzer, 1998; Parker & Axtell, 2001), or theymay rationalize it as beingnot so bad (Ashforth et al., 2008; Elsbach & Kramer, 1996; Kovoor-Misra, 2009; Nag, Corley, & Gioia, 2007; Turner, 1975).”
A General Theory of Organizational Stigma (2009, background): “Whereas earlier work in this area was concerned with understanding employees’ perceptions of organizations to which they belong, more recent empirical evidence has demonstrated that individual organizational observers can, and do, identify and/or disidentify with organizations, even in the absence o”
Exploring the development of team identification: the contribution of social identity and the psychological continuum model (2012, positive): “Thus, individuals will be attracted to support a team to benefit their social identity (Tajfel, 1982; Tajfel & Turner, 1979) and because there is a perceived congruence between individual and group values (Elsbach & Bhattacharya, 2001).”
A multi-level investigation of psychological contract breach and organizational identification through the lens of perceived organizational membership: testing a moderated-mediated model (2013, background): “Whereas organizational identification is defined as a connection between a person and an organization, disidentification is defined as a sense of separateness (Elsbach & Bhattacharya, 2001).”
More than Words: The Influence of Affective Content and Linguistic Style Matches in Online Reviews on Conversion Rates (2013, background): “Such disidentification and its implications present a worthwhile avenue for further research (Elsbach and Bhattacharya 2001).”
Consumer–Company Identification: A Framework for Understanding Consumers’ Relationships with Companies (2003, background): “For example, for companies with a broad consumer base, identification among one consumer segment might lead to disidentification among others (Elsbach and Bhattacharya 2001).”