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Mediating Identity: A Study of Media Influence on Organizational Identity Construction in a Celebrity Firm

Kjaergaard, Annemette, Morsing, Mette, Ravasi, Davide·2011·Journal of Management Studies

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This paper reports a longitudinal field study on the effects of positive media coverage on the reconstruction of organizational identity. The study highlights how intense positive coverage – to the point of turning an organization into a ‘celebrity’– influences both the way members understand their organization (sensemaking effect) and the gratification they derive from its positive representation (self-enhancement effect). Our findings suggest that positive media representations foster members' alignment around an emergent new understanding of what their organization is. Over time, however, celebrity may ‘captivate’ members' organizational identity beliefs and understandings, and impede further identity work as media persist in the replication of representations that differ from members' experienced reality, but are too appealing to them to be publicly contradicted.

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  • Employees at Oticon communicated themselves into a new organizational structure as they responded to inquisitive external media.

    “A study of organizational change in Oticon, a globally operating hearing aid company, demonstrates how employees literally communicated themselves into a new organizational structure as they responded to inquisitive external media that wanted to know more about the new organizational design (Kjærgaard, Morsing, & Ravasi, 2011).”

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Authors
Kjaergaard, A., Morsing, M., & Ravasi, D.
Affiliations
  • Copenhagen Business School (DK)
  • Bocconi University (IT)
Venue
Journal of Management Studies
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2011-03-28
Volume
48
Issue
3
Pages
514-543
ISSN
0022-2380 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1956127094
Cited by
149
References
93
Citations by year
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FWCI
14.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Management Studies (publishedVersion)
  • CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School) (publishedVersion)
  • City Research Online (City University London) (acceptedVersion)
  • Archivio istituzionale della Ricerca - Bocconi (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Identity and Reputation
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Public Relations and Crisis Communication
Keywords
organizational identity, media coverage, sensemaking, self-enhancement, identity work, media representation

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