The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity

by Pratt, Michael G.; Schultz, Majken; Ashforth, Blake E.; Ravasi, Davide

• ISBN13: 9780199689576
• ISBN10: 0199689571
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-11-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Michael G. Pratt, O'Connor Family Professor, Department of Management & Organization, Carroll School of Management, Boston College,Majken Schultz, Professor of Organization and Management, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School,Blake E. Ashforth, Horace Steele Arizona Heritage Chair, Department of Management,, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University,Davide Ravasi, Professor of Management, Cass Business School, City University London

Michael G. Pratt is the O'Connor Family Professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research is problem-centered and process-oriented, and consequently he tends to engage in cross-level research. His interests include how individuals connect with the work that they do, as well as to the organizations, professions, occupations, and other collectives in which they find themselves. Theoretically, his research draws heavily from theories of identity and identification, ambivalence, meaning, intuition, and culture (e.g., artifacts). Mike is currently a fellow of the Academy of Management and an associate editor for the Administrative Science Quarterly.

Majken Schultz is Professor of Organization and Management since 1996 at Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on the interrelations between organizational culture and organizational identity during transformational change. Currently she is interested in how organizations reconstruct their identity in time based on longitudinal studies of LEGO and Carlsberg Group. She has published more than 50 articles in international peer reviewed journals on these topics and edited/co-authored multiple books, including several with Oxford University Press. She is International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University, member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and serves on several company boards.

Blake Ashforth is the Horace Steele Arizona Heritage Chair in the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. His research concerns the ongoing dance between individuals and organizations, including identity and identification, socialization and newcomer work adjustment, and the links among individual-, group-, and organization-level phenomena. Recent research has focused on dirty work, ambivalence, and respect. Blake is a fellow of the Academy of Management.


Davide Ravasi is Professor of Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management at the Cass Business School, City University London. His research examines interrelations between organizational identity, culture, and strategy in times of change, and how discursive and material artifacts influence sensemaking. He is interested more generally in cultural processes influencing how new objects and new practices come to be, and whether and how they are adopted by individuals and organizations. His works have appeared on the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, and other journals.

Table of Contents

Organizational Identity: Mapping Where We Have Been, Where We Are, and Where We Might Go, Michael Pratt, Majken Schultz, Blake Ashforth, and Davide Ravasi
Section 1: Mapping the organizational identity (OI) field
1. Great debates in organizational identity study, Peter Foreman and David Whetten
2. Measuring organizational identity: Taking Stock and Looking Forward, Dennis A. Gioia and Aimee L. Hamilton
3. Organizational Identity, Culture and Image, Davide Ravasi
4. Cross-Level OI, Blake Ashforth
5. Identity Change & Temporality, Majken Schultz
6. Multiple OI & Hybrids, Michael Pratt
Section 2: Critical Perspectives on OI
7. Organizational Identity and Organizational Identity Work as Valuable Analytical Resources, Tony J Watson
8. Organizational Identity: The Significance of Power and Politics, Kate Kenney, Andrea Whittle, and Hugh Willmott
9. Organizational Identity: A Critique, Mats Alvesson and Maxine Robertson
Section 3: Integrative Models of OI
10. Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Balance between Differentiation and Conformity in Individual and Organizational Identities, Ezra Zuckerman
11. Bridging & Integrating Theories on Organizational Identity: A Social Interactionist Model of Organizational Identity Formation and Change, Joep Cornelissen, Mirjam Werner, and Alex Haslam,
Section 4: How Individuals Relate to OI
12. How Do We Communicate Who We Are? Examining How Organizational Identity Is Conveyed to Members, Beth Schinoff, Kristie Rogers, and Kevin G. Corley
13. Mobilizing Organizational Action Against Identity Threats: The Role of Organizational Members' Perceptions and Responses, Jennifer Petriglieri and Devine
14. Organizational Identity and the Undesired Self, Kimberly Elsbach and Janet Dukerich
Section 5: Sources and processes of OI
15. Organizational Identity Work, Glen E. Kreiner and Chad Murphy
16. ReMembering: Rhetorical History as Identity-Work, Roy Suddaby, William Foster, and Quinn Trank
17. Materiality and Identity: How Organizational Products, Artifacts, and Practices Instantiate Organizational Identity, Lee Watkiss and Mary Ann Glynn
18. Making Sense of Who We Are: Leadership and Organizational Identity, Daan Van Knippenberg
Section 6: OI and the Environment
19. Organizational Identity and Institutions, Nelson Philips, Mattew Kraatz, Tracey
20. Institutional Pluralism, Inhabitants, and the Construction of Organizational and Personal Identities, Rich Dejordy and W. E. Douglas Creed
21. Organizational Identity and Institutional Forces: Toward an Integrative Framework, Marya L. Besharov and Shelley L. Brickson
Section 7: Implications of OI
22. Organizational Identity and Innovation, Anthony and Mary Tripsas
23. Planned Organizational Identity Change: Insights from Practice, Mamta Bhatt, Cees B. M. van Riel, and Marijke Baumann
24. Identity Construction in Mergers and Acquisitions: A Discursive Sensemaking Perspective, Janne Tienari and Eero Vaara
25. Fostering Stakeholder Identification Through Expressed Organizational Identities, Caroline Bartel, Cindi Baldi, and Janet Dukerich
26. On the Identity of Organizational Identity: Looking Backwards Towards the Future, Michael Pratt, Majken Schultz, Blake Ashforth, and Davide Ravasi