To acquire resources, new ventures need to be perceived as legitimate. For this to occur, a
venture must meet the expectations of various audiences with differing norms, standards …

In this paper, I analyse five approaches to identity work–discursive, dramaturgical, symbolic,
socio‐cognitive, and psychodynamic–and show how these are helpful in exploring the ways …

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity …

The growing number of studies referencing the concept of mission drift implies that such drift
is an undesirable strategic outcome related to inconsistent organizational action, yet beyond …

Theory and research concerning organizational identity (“who we are as an organization”) is
a burgeoning domain within organization study. A great deal of conceptual and empirical …

In this article, we present an overview of the literatures on organizational identity and
organizational identification. We provide overviews of four major approaches to …

In this research, we examine the relationship between employee psychological entitlement
(PE) and employee willingness to engage in unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) …

The only textbook to use a three-perspective framework to explain, explore, and evaluate
organizational theory in a distinctively engaging style. A well-established and highly …

High-reliability organizations (HROs) and their complex operating models have been a
focus of scholarly work for more than three decades. Recently, HROs have been challenged …

The literature on identification in organizations is surprisingly diverse and large. This article
reviews the literature in terms of four fundamental questions. First, under “What is …