By: Caroline A. Bartel (Editor), Steven L. Blader (Editor), Amy Wrzesniewski (Editor)

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Identity and the Modern Organization presents a lively exchange of ideas among psychology and management scholars on the realities of modern organizational life and their effect on the identities that organizations and their members cultivate. This book bridges the domains of psychology and management to facilitate a multi-disciplinary, multi-level integration of theory and research on identity processes.

The volume highlights answers to important questions raised by shifting organizational forms and arrangements, such as:

• How are identity processes affected by, and how do they affect, the motivations of individuals and organizations?


• How do identity and identification shape the social processes that unfold between individuals and groups?


• How do strong versus weak contexts affect identity processes as the boundaries of organizations and social categories within them become more permeable?

An effective tool for understanding a wide variety of organizational phenomena, this book is intended for scholars and students in the fields of management, organizational theory, organizational behavior, social psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology.

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction
Identity and the Modern Organization: An Invitation	p. 3
Social Motivations in Modern Organizations
Legitimating Identities: How Institutional Logics Motivate Organizational Name Choices	p. 17
Organizational Orthodoxy and Corporate Autocrats: Some Nasty Consequences of Organizational Identification in Uncertain Times	p. 35
Let's Not Forget the "Me" in "Team": Investigating the Interface of Individual and Collective Identity	p. 61
Part II Commentary-Identity: The Elastic Concept	p. 85
Social Processes in Modern Organizations
Managing Multiple Organizational Identities: On Identity Ambiguity, Identity Conflict, and Members' Reactions	p. 99
The Struggle to Establish Organizational Membership and Identification in Remote Work Contexts	p. 119
Social Identity and the Dynamics of Organizational Life: Insights From the BBC Prison Study	p. 135
Part III Commentary-Lost in Identities: A Brief Tale of Two Explorers	p. 167
The Contextual Landscape of Modern Organizations
The Effects of Interorganizational Competition on Identity-Based Organizational Commitment	p. 177
Being Oneself in the Workplace: Self-Verification and Identity in Organizational Contexts	p. 201
Identity-Based Issue Selling	p. 223
Part IV Commentary-Identity and Beyond: Future Directions for Identity and Identification Research	p. 245
Conclusion
A Critique of Organizational Identity Scholarship: Challenging the Uncritical Use of Social Identity Theory When Social Identities Are Also Social Actors	p. 253
Author Index	p. 273
Subject Index	p. 283
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ISBN: 9780805856798
ISBN-10: 080585679X
Series: Series in Organization and Management
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 5th July 2007
Dimensions (cm): 23.6 x 15.6  x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.534