This article, together with a companion video, provides a synthesized summary of a Showcase Symposium held at the 2016 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in which prominent scholars—Denny Gioia, Kathy Eisenhardt, Ann Langley and Kevin Corley—discussed different approaches to theory...

Contrary to recent portrayals, we argue that the relationship between organizational identity and organizational learning is not only a strong one, but also one that facilitates organizational adaptability to a constantly shifting competitive environment. The implications of this relationship...

The study of organizational identity has proven to be invaluable for our understanding of organizational behavior and strategy. In the 15 years since the introduction of the concept, researchers have demonstrated its importance to key variables at the individual, group, and organizational level....

Although multinational companies (MNCs) have increasingly embraced a sustainability strategy for their own operations, fewer have tried to engage their (tier-one) suppliers in their sustainability initiatives. It is even rarer that MNCs engage their suppliers’ suppliers (lower-tier suppliers),...

In this paper, we build on a longitudinal study of three different attempts at managing identity change within the same organization over a period of 25 years. The purpose of the paper is to develop an interpretative model that investigates how organizations may promote periodic renewal and...

Knowledge management (KM) aims to provide a foundation to support an organizations sustained competitive advantage by building and sustaining the value and uniqueness of organizational knowledge resources and processes. From an inductive theory-building case study of an organization struggling...