Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger

By Shawna M. Clark, Dennis A. Gioia, Dave J. Ketchen, James B. Thomas. 2010

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

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Templates and Turns in Qualitative Studies of Strategy and Management (2011, background): “In terms of data collection more generally, the researchers have made extensive use of interviews, often carried out in multiple rounds and at multiple levels and positions, but also of observational data (Clark et al., 2010; Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991; Corley & Gioia, 2004).”
Supply chain disruption propagation: a systemic risk and normal accident theory perspective (2018, methodology): “Next, these concepts are organised into a higher level of abstraction (Gioia et al. 1994; Clark et al. 2010), which is depicted as second-order themes (in the middle of Figure 1).”
Rites of passage through talent management progression stages: an identity work perspective (2013, background): “Talent management strategies are geared towards the attraction of talent from inside and outside the organisation, with their development and retention taken as key to enabling sustainable competitive advantage in a global knowledge economy (Cappelli, 2008; Scullion and Collings 2010).”
Organizational Forms and Multi-population Dynamics (2014, background): “Broader literature on organizational identity and legitimacy uses similar concepts, such as the transitional identity of firms in a merger process, which facilitates the emergence of a new identity for the newly merged company (Clark et al., 2010).”
The Challenge of Integration: A Review of the M&A Integration Literature (2017, background): “Transitional identities, preliminary ideas of what the final identity of the integrated entity will be, are helpful for simplifying the identification process (Clark et al. 2010; Lupina-Wegener et al. 2015).”
Agile Business Model Innovation in Digital Entrepreneurship: Lean Startup Approaches (2020, background): “These first order concepts were then further grouped around a set of second order themes or categories, allowing us to view the data at a higher level of abstraction (Clark et al., 2010).”
Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research (2013, background): “Such propositions now appear in the discussion sections of some recent papers (see Clark et al., 2010; Gioia et al., 2010).”
Co-creating Relationship Repair (2015, background): “When people are in this unfrozen state they are described as being in a liminal, or transitional, space in which they are betwixt and between established positions or identities (Van Gennep, 1960; Clark et al., 2010).”