Actors in a market affiliate with various categories, which undergo different processes of legitimation, both informal and formal, over time. This paper explores the role of formal codification in the categorization of identity under social movement processes. Using the identity claims of U.S. organic food wholesalers from 1988 through 2001, I find that the enactment of state laws, a type of fo...

This study examines how organizations shape potential employees’ social identity prior to joining the organization. is relevant in light of growing demands for knowledge workers together with a lack about determinants employer attractiveness this group. Our uses different organizational crises as identity-threatening events and extends current research by showing such influence anticipations id...

Market Partitioning, Organizational Identity and Geography: Empirical and Simulation Evidence in the German Electricity Market after Deregulation

In response to Marshall Meyer (1990), who questioned Max Weber’s relevance to contemporary organization studies, Lounsbury and Carberry (2005) countered that, although Weberian scholarship in organization studies has dwindled, Weber’s theories continue to offer fertile ground to organizational researchers. To illustrate their point, Lounsbury and Carberry used Weber’s work to explain globalizat...

T paper explores the relationship between authoring of identities and organizational development through a case study of the 18-year history of a professional service firm. Drawing from process theory, narrative psychology, and practice approaches to identity, I outline a perspective on organizational becoming as dialogic imagination of practice. Conceived as such, authoring takes place as a co...