Group Status as a Determinant of Organizational Identification After a Takeover: A Social Identity Perspective

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

This study investigates the relation between the perceived status of an organization after a takeover (i.e. post-merger status) on employees’ identification with this new organization (i.e. their post-merger identification). Respondents were 234 employees of a corrugated board producing company, which had taken over a smaller company eight months before. As hypothesized, post-merger status was positively related to organizational identification among employees of the lower-status pre-merger company, but they were not related among employees of the higher-status company. Also in line with the expectations, post-merger status was positively related to organizational identification among employees who had identified weakly with their pre-merger group, but not among employees who had identified strongly with their pre-merger group.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Umfang: Seite(n): 547-560
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 9(4)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: group status; organizational mergers; social identity;

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Boen, Filip ; Vanbeselaere, Norbert ; Cool, Marijke
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430206067555
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-228028
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ