Forging an Identity: An Insider-outsider Study of Processes Involved in the Formation of Organizational Identity

By Dennis A. Gioia, Kristin N. Price, A. Hamilton, James B. Thomas. 2010

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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A Temporal Perspective on Organizational Identity (2013, background): “…of identity among Dutch microbrewers, Kroezen and Heugens (2012) argue that intertwined processes of imprinting and enactment bring a reservoir of past identity attributes into the present, stressing how the origin of identity influences the claims that follow (see also Gioia et al. 2010).”
Unpacking the Difference Between Digital Transformation and IT-Enabled Organizational Transformation (2021, background): “This closely corresponds to the literature on organizational identity that captures how an organization perceives itself and what it does (Corley & Gioia, 2004; Gioia et al., 2010; Nag et al., 2007).”
Templates and Turns in Qualitative Studies of Strategy and Management (2011, background): “…articles, Gioia and colleagues have also developed a rather innovative insider-outsider perspective that truly optimizes access to richness, in which one member of the research team has been an active participant in the events studied (e.g., Gioia et al., 1994, 2010; Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991).”
Strategies of alignment (2011, background): “39 Past research in an interpretive perspective has argued for the importance of social validation – understood as “legitimizing feedback” from external perceptions and representations (Pratt & Kraatz, 2009; Gioia et al., 2010) – but has paid less attention to the issue of whether and how these conc”
Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research (2013, background): “…on nascent concepts that don’t seem to have adequate theoretical referents in the existing literature (e.g., ‘‘identity ambiguity’’ from Corley and Gioia, 2004) or existing concepts that ‘‘leap out’’ because of their relevance to a new domain (‘‘optimal distinctiveness’’ from Gioia et al., 2010).”
“I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon”: How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work (2018, methodology): “I probed the few instances of discrepancies between the raters’ coding and my coding by following Gioia et al. (2010) in resolving disagreements by discussing them with the coders until we reached a unanimous decision on how to code each discrepancy.”
“What’s Past Is Prologue” (2015, background): “Finally, some studies have advanced cognitive explanations, such as habit, rule, and routine formation (Bryant, 2012; Dimov, de Holan, & Milanov, 2012); narratives (Gioia et al., 2010); and stable managerial thought processes (Boeker, 1989a; Lamberg & Tikkanen, 2006; Majumdar, 2004) to provide a fur”
Reconceptualizing brand identity in a dynamic environment (2013, background): “Recent earlier work highlights that brand identity is a dynamic process, originating among managers (Gioia et al., 2010), and developing over time throughmutually influencing inputs from several social constituents (e.”
Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger (2010, background): “…changed state, constitutes a strong conceptual foundation for identity Transitional Identity 429/ASQ, September 2010 change, a process that prior research has found to be wrenching (e.g., Dutton and Dukerich, 1991; Fiol, 2002; Corley and Gioia, 2004; Ravasi and Schultz, 2006; Gioia et al., 2010).”