Identification in Organizations: An Examination of Four Fundamental Questions
- B. Ashforth, S. Harrison, Kevin G. Corley
- Business
- 7 March 2008
The literature on identification in organizations is surprisingly diverse and large. This article reviews the literature in terms of four fundamental questions. First, under “What is…
Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research
- D. Gioia, Kevin G. Corley, A. Hamilton
- Psychology
- 1 January 2013
For all its richness and potential for discovery, qualitative research has been critiqued as too often lacking in scholarly rigor. The authors summarize a systematic approach to new concept…
Organizational Identity, Image, and Adaptive Instability
- D. Gioia, M. Schultz, Kevin G. Corley
- Sociology
- 2000
Organizational identity usually is portrayed as that which is core, distinctive, and enduring about the character of an organization. We argue that because of the reciprocal interrelationships…
Identity Ambiguity and Change in the Wake of a Corporate Spin-off
- Kevin G. Corley, D. Gioia
- Business
- 1 June 2004
We report on the findings of an inductive, interpretive case study of organizational identity change in the spin-off of a Fortune 100 company's top-performing organizational unit into an independent…
Building theory about theory building: What constitutes a theoretical contribution? Academy of Management Review, , .
- Kevin G. Corley, D. Gioia
- Psychology
- 2011
We distill existing literature on theoretical contribution into two dimensions, originality (incremental or revelatory) and utility (scientific or practical). We argue for a revision in the way…
Organizational Identity Formation and Change
- D. Gioia, Shubha Patvardhan, A. Hamilton, Kevin G. Corley
- Business
- 6 March 2013
Theory and research concerning organizational identity (“who we are as an organization”) is a burgeoning domain within organization study. A great deal of conceptual and empirical work has been…
The Intersection of Organizational Identity, Knowledge, and Practice: Attempting Strategic Change Via Knowledge Grafting
- Rajiv Nag, Kevin G. Corley, D. Gioia
- Business
- 1 August 2007
We investigated the attempt of a high-technology R&D organization to transform into a market-oriented organization by “grafting” new, nontechnological knowledge. The intended strategic transformati...
Building Better Theory by Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide
- Sonali K. Shah, Kevin G. Corley
- Sociology
- 1 December 2006
abstract Qualitative methods for data collection and analysis are not mystical, but they are powerful, particularly when used to build new or refine existing theories. This article provides an…
Defined by our strategy or our culture? Hierarchical differences in perceptions of organizational identity and change
- Kevin G. Corley
- Business
- 1 September 2004
While theory and research have identified the possibility for multiple organizational identities to exist within an organization, there is little empirical evidence on how differentiation occurs or…
Guiding Organizational Identity Through Aged Adolescence
- Kevin G. Corley, Celia V. Harquail, M. Pratt, M. Glynn, C. Fiol, M. Hatch
- Business
- 1 June 2006
In this article, the authors reflect on the past two decades of research on organizational identity, looking to its history and to its future. They do not provide a review of the literature, nor do…
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