I'm going to investigate the role played by organizational identity in fostering abandon resistance among old entrepreneuers
Signor Ferrari,
Forgive me, I am puzzled by the term abandon resistance. Perhaps you might want to explain?
Yes, it's the resistance showed by entrepreneurs in leaving their job to the next generation (the so called 'founder's shadow'). About 9% of Italian entrepreneurs are over 70, often undermining next generation's autonomy and career development
Please read the following articles :
1. organizational Identity Formation and Change
2. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.1110.0731
3. Organizational Identity and Organizational Identification
A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for Future Research
Hongwei He, Andrew D. Brown
Any measure that provides organisational rank of any kind. The source of ranking reflects the cause and effect.
dr. Mr. Malik, please forgive me but I'm not sure if I understand... Do you mean any ranking is a source of organizational identity? for instance, market share or similar?
Dear Filippo,
I am also doing research on Family Firms. I suggest the FIBER scale (Berrone et al. (2012)).
The diverse literature regarding the application of socio-emotional wealth in Family Firms mentions, among others, the following affective values: enjoyment of personal control, ability to exercise authority, need for identification, perpetuation of a positive family image and reputation, sense of belonging, and an active role in the family dynasty (e.g., Berrone et al., 2012; Gómez-Mejía et al., 2010).
I think that by reading the litterature on SEW you will find other scales or tools (REI, SEWI...) to measure organizational identity.
Best Regards
Soumaya SFEIR
Dear colleague,
You may use different methods of measurement of organizational identity. Some of them are: Method of Atamer and Calori (1993); Balmer's affinity audit-BAA; Bernstein's Spiderweb method (1986); The Laddering technique - Van Riel and Balmer (1997), Method of Gioia and Thomas (1996); Elsbach and Kramer, (1996); Moingeon and Ramanantsoa, (1997);
Methods of measurement of multiple identities - Foreman & Whetten, 2002; Pratt & Foreman, 2000; Van Riel (1995) – model SIDEC
Kind regards,
Yanica Dimitrova
You may refer to the following article:
- Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder: The Impact of Organizational Identification, Identity, and Image on the Cooperative Behaviors of Physicians, Janet M. Dukerich, Brian R. Golden, and Stephen M. Shortell (Sept. 2002), Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 507-533
I am curious about the question related to organizational identity. I am wondering how one can measure identity. I am not a sociologist, I have to admit. Identity is a term used to describe a collection of features that distinguish something from another so we can speak of national, ethnic, cultural, professional or even gender identity. How does one measure all of these? Perhaps you mean classification and if so, I think , one cannot speak of measurement but actually of placing or attempting to place something into categories which means we have categorical entities and not measurement on a scale as we normally understand. Even if such measurement, however done, is possible, I would think it would not be easily transferable between organizations, between industry, etc. What we might have could at best be labels. And people could argue about labels.
I think this view also emerges from Ms Dimitrova's comment about "different methods" being available. I must admit I have note read any of the papers she refers to. Further, the attempt to produce different methods suggests, at least to me, that organizational identity is a nebulous, cloudy, fuzzy concept that cannot be measured.
dear Phil, your question is very challenging. The crucial element seems to be the construct of category, a cognitive schema used for making order both in internal experience and external reality. Social Psychology posits that the Social and Personal Identities (SIPI) scale distinguishes between the interpersonal level of self which differentiates the individual as unique from others, and the social identity level of self whereby the individual is identified by his or her group memberships, for instance an organizational membership. Thus, instruments are currently evaluating by scholars in order to measure organizational identity as a specific aspect of social identity.
There is at least a journal devoted to these issues: Self and Identity https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/psai20/current
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