Organizational Identity

• Presents classic works on Organizational Identity and the best current thinking
• Strongly interdisciplinary, drawing on research from such diverse fields of study as sociology, psychology, management studies and cultural studies.

Readership: Academics and students in organizational identity, and more broadly students of business, sociology, and psychology.

Mary Jo Hatch, Professor of Commerce at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, and Majken Schultz, Professor of Organization and Leadership, Copenhagen Business School

Mary Jo Hatch and Majken Schultz: Introduction
Section I: The Roots of Organizational Identity in Sociology and Social Psychology
1: C. H. Cooley: Society and the Individual
2: G. H. Mead: The Self
3: E. Goffman: The Arts of Impression Management
4: Henri Taijfel and John Turner: An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict
5: Marilynn B. Brewer and Wendi Gardner: Who is this 'We'? Levels of Colletive Identity and Self Representations
Section II: Early Development of Organizational Identity Theory
6: Stuart Albert and David A. Whetten: Organizational Identity
7: Howard S. Schwartz: Amto-Social Actions of Committed Organizational Participants: An Existential Psychoanalytic Perspective
8: Blake E. Ashforth and Fred Mael: Social Identity Theory and the Organization
9: Mats Alvesson: Organization: From Substance to Image?
10: Jane E. Dutton and Janet M. Dukerich: Keeping an Eye on the Mirror: Image and Identity in Organizational Adaptation
11: Linda E. Ginzel, Roderick M. Kramer, and Robert I. Sutton: Organizational Impression Management as Reciprocal Influence Process: The Neglected Role of the Organizational Audience
Section III: Recent Developments in Organizational Identity Theory
Section III.i: Multiple Identities
12: Michael G. Pratt and Anat Rafaeli: Organizational Dress as a Symbol of Multilayered Social Identities
13: Karen Golden-Biddle and Hayagreeva Rao: Breaches in the Boardroom: Organizational Identity and Conflicts of Commitment in a Nonprofit Organization
Section III.ii: Stability and Change in Organizational Identity
14: Dennis A. Gioia, Majken Schultz, and Kevin G. Corley: Organizational Identity, Image, and Adaptive Instability
15: Mary Jo Hatch and Majken Schultz: The Dynamics of Organizational Identity
Section III.iii: Identity as Narrative and Discourse
16: Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott: Identity Regulation as Organizational Control Producing the Appropriate Individual
17: Barbara Czarniawska: Narratives of Individual and Organizational Identities
Section III.iv: Audiences for Identity
18: Kimberly D. Elsbach and Roderick M. Kramer: Members' Responses to Organizational Identity Threats: Encountering and Countering the Business Week Rankings
19: George Cheney and Lars Thøger Christensen: Organizational Identity: Linkages Between Internal and External Communication