The Co-Evolutionary Process Model of Organizational Identity and Firm Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 15238
Author(s):  
Suvi-Tuuli Helin
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Firm Strategy ◽  
Evolutionary Process

scholarly journals Practicing identity in emergent firms: How practices shape founders’ organizational identity claims

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-105
Author(s):  
David Oliver ◽  
Heather C Vough
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Process Model ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
New Firm

Establishing a new firm presents a variety of challenges to organizational founders. An important concern is the development of a set of clear and coherent organizational identity claims that can inform future strategic decision-making. While practices have been identified as important resources that individuals draw on during organizational identity change and formation, their role in initiating shifts in organizational identity claims has not been examined. In this longitudinal study of seven de novo organizations, we develop a process model showing how practices engaged in by founders when establishing their firms cue sensemaking about the organization’s identity by identifying identity voids, generating identity insights through interactions with outsiders, and identifying identity discrepancies through interactions with insiders. Founders interpret these sensemaking triggers as either opportunities or threats to their identity aspirations for their firms, leading to organizational identity work that generates new identity claims. We discuss implications of our model for scholars of organizational identity emergence and practice, as well as for founders of new organizations.

scholarly journals Development of a CityGML Application Domain Extension for Simulating the Building Construction Process

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Zhang ◽  
Yunping Liu ◽  
Chen Lin ◽  
Liangchen Zhou ◽  
Bingxian Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Domain Extension ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The City

Virtual 3D city models can be stored and exchanged in the CityGML open data model. When dynamic phenomena in 3D cities are represented with a CityGML application domain extension (ADE), the objects in CityGML are often used as static background, and it is difficult to represent the evolutionary process of the objects themselves. Although a construction process model in building information modeling (BIM) is available, it cannot efficiently and accurately simulate the building construction process at the city level. Accordingly, employing the arrow diagramming method, we developed a CityGML ADE to represent this process. We extended the hierarchy of the model and proposed the process levels of detail model. Subsequently, we explored a mechanism to associate the construction process and building objects as well as the mechanism to automate construction process transitions. Experiments indicated that the building construction process ADE (BCPADE) could adequately express the characteristics of this process. Compared with the building construction process model in the architecture, engineering, and construction field, BCPADE removes redundant information, i.e., that unrelated to a 3D city. It can adequately express building construction processes at multiple spatiotemporal scales and accurately convey building object behavior during building evolution, such as adding, removal, merging, and change. Such characteristics enable BCPADE to render efficient and accurate simulations of the building construction process at the city level.

An Evolutionary Process Model for Design Style Imitation

2008 ◽  
pp. 417-436
Author(s):  
Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza ◽  
Arám Zamora Lores
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Design Style

The Importance of Managing Strategic IT Project Contracts Using a Business Process Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry R. Adler ◽  
Thomas G. Pittz
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Firm Strategy ◽  
Risk Identification ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
It Project Management ◽  
Strategic Process ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
It Project

Much has been written about managing information technology (IT) project contracts and their ultimate effect on fulfilling an organization's strategy. The integration of managing IT projects, contracts and firm strategy, however, continues to capture the attention of scholars and practitioners. This paper discusses the integration of these issues while providing a necessary process framework of how project contracts become strategic to firms when repeated transactions, increased risk identification, enhanced trust over time, and improved exploration and learning are present. IT project management has been and continues to be a growth profession, and the use of IT project contracts to outsource work has been increasing in importance as well. The authors have found that IT project management is collaborative when work is administered through information technology contracts that respond to organizational objectives. Because of the variance in how IT contracts are managed, they develop a strategic process model and discuss two lessons learned to better facilitate managing IT contracts. The proposed model and lessons learned provide insight so that the achievement of organizational strategy can be improved through simultaneous IT project and goal alignment.

An evolutionary process model of design

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Hybs ◽  
John S. Gero
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Evolutionary Process

Bridging and Integrating Theories on Organizational Identity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joep Cornelissen ◽  
Mirjam Werner ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Integrative Process ◽  
Social Interactionist ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Cross Fertilization

We review the existing literature on organizational identity and compare and contrast different theoretical perspectives, including social constructionist, social actor, and social identity theories. We argue that these perspectives can be usefully compared, and in turn integrated, by identifying the root metaphors, or images, of identity that form their theoretical base. By taking this approach, we are able to connect strands of organizational identity scholarship and identify possibilities for a greater cross-fertilization and integration between them. We in turn propose an integrative process model that describes key processes and outcomes of organizational identity formation and change, from a social interactionist perspective, and which provides a viable theoretical framework for further research.

Making connections: A process model of organizational identification

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
John AA Sillince ◽  
Ben D Golant
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Forward Movement ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Process View ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Identification Processes

Organizational identification is conventionally defined as a sense of oneness. Yet this is static and inhibits a process view of identification, in which organizational identity is continuously adjusted. Most studies of organizational identification are of members and not stakeholders, despite evidence that suggests that stakeholders have a significant role and that organizational identity and image are reciprocally connected. We ask the question: how is organizational identification discursively constructed? We suggest that stakeholders play a key role in organizational identification processes. The forward movement of the process, from Performative to Instrumental to Interactional to Reciprocal, is one of reinforcement in which soft power enrols a virtuous circle of willing support. The backward movement of the process, from Reciprocal to Interactional to Instrumental to Performative, is one of functional justification involving hard power as coercion by communicating the organization’s expectations to the individual.

How professionalization and organizational diversity shape contemporary careers: Developing a typology and process model

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Chul Jeong ◽  
Huseyin Leblebici
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Organizational Diversity ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy

‘How are contemporary careers constructed?’ The aim of the article is to answer this question by developing a conceptual model of how professional and organizational environments shape careers in today’s knowledge-based economy. Focusing on the interplay of two macro-level forces, professionalization and the diversity of organizations, we develop a typology of four distinct career models and incorporate them into a dynamic evolutionary process of careers. The implications for developing a more integrated and dynamic approach on contemporary careers are discussed.

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