Organizations need to maintain enduring and stable organizational identity to gain long-term success while must adapt quickly to the increasingly volatile environment as a critical condition for profitability and survival. Such ongoing paradoxical challenge concerning management of organizational identity has been left unaddressed in the existing literature. Drawing on the ambidexterity and org...

Work consciousness plays an important role in creating the structure, behavior and function of the organization; under its shadow, structural factors of the organization are formed and it has an impact on behavioral factors (content, culture, values, perception and motivation). This study tries to investigate the relation between work consciousness and organizational identity and health. The me...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this contribution we state the following thesis: The concept of federation represents a promising way to ease the establishment and operation of organizational and technical issues of identity management at a university. This concept fits well for most universities due to the fact that typically universities consist of " somewhat " independent organizational units like l...

This article reviews empirical studies of organizational identity. It examines how the construct has been operationalized and measured. Most studies rely on Albert and Whetten’s (1985) definition of organizational identity, but differ in their interpretations of key dimensions, particularly in whether they rely on direct perceptions of organization members or more indirect measures to capture f...

This article investigates the cognitive linguistic processes involved in organizational identity construction through language-based identity claims. The organizational imaging process constructs an organization’s identity in relation to a system of positively and negatively valued conceptual categories. It involves using language to establish a classification scheme and to define the organizat...