Becoming Through Doing: How Experimental Spaces Enable Organizational Identity Work
| Autor: | Valérie Sabatier, Emmanuel Coblence, Neva Bojovic |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Kedge Business School (Kedge BS), Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie (IREGE), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Grenoble Ecole de Management, Institut Supérieur de Gestion Paris |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Strategy and Management
experimental spaces Business model Education 0502 economics and business Sociology Business and International Management organizational identity 050208 finance Organizational identity ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry 05 social sciences Media industry Public relations business model experimentation Work (electrical) Publishing business model Industrial relations [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration media industry business 050203 business & management organizational identity work space Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Strategic Organization Strategic Organization, SAGE Publications (UK and US), In press, ⟨10.1177/1476127019864673⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1476-1270 |
| Popis: | International audience; This qualitative study of a magazine publishing incumbent shows how organizational identity work can be triggered when organizational members engage in business model experimentation within the bounded social setting of experimental space. The study adds to the understanding of the strategy-identity nexus by expanding on the view of business models as cognitive tools to business models as tools for becoming and by understanding the role of experimental spaces as holding environments for organizational identity work. We show how an experimental space engages organizational members in experimental practices (e.g., cognitive, material, and experiential). As firms experiment with “what they do”, organizational members progressively confront the existing organizational identity in the following ways: they engage in practices of organizational identity work by coping with the loss of the old identity, they play with possible organizational identities, and they allow new organizational identity aspirations to emerge. In these ways, experimental spaces act as an organizational identity work space that eventually enables organizational identity change. We identify two mechanisms (i.e., grounding and releasing) by which an organizational identity work space emerges and leads to the establishment of a renewed organizational identity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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