Political Dynamics in Organizational Identity Breach and Reconstruction: Findings from the Crisis in UNICEF Germany

This paper elucidates the political dynamics of organizational identity breach and reconstruction. Drawing on revealing case UNICEF Germany, we develop a process model four phases reconstruction: build-up tensions, revelation breach, reconstruction, enactment reconstructed identity. Our analysis explains how each phase was characterized by specific strategies employed managerialist idealist members, effects these power balance consensus or conflict over identity, particular triggers explain shifts from one to another. By so doing, our advances understanding reconstruction as processes, paves way for new studies in other contexts.