A growing body of research unveils the ubiquity of ambivalence—the simultaneous
experience of positive and negative emotional or cognitive orientations toward a person …

Hybrid organizations that combine multiple organizational forms deviate from socially
legitimate templates for organizing, and thus experience unique organizing challenges. In …

In contemporary societies an increasing number of social needs have to be financed by
market activities. In this regard, scholars started to discuss whether 'Social Innovation','Social …

The objective of this article is to formulate the concept of organizational identity in such a
way that it can be distinguished analytically from related concepts, such as organizational …

In this article, the authors reflect on the past two decades of research on organizational
identity, looking to its history and to its future. They do not provide a review of the literature …

Technology transfer offices (TTOs) are of strategic importance to universities committed to
the commercialization of academic knowledge. Within the university, TTOs' relationship with …

The notion of stakeholder salience based on attributes (eg, power, legitimacy, urgency) is
applied in the family business setting. We argue that where principal institutions intersect (ie …

This article analyses how multiple organizational identities are constructed through rhetoric
to maintain and enhance the legitimacy claims made by organizations. Our theorizing is …

Recent events have raised concerns about the ethical standards of public and private
organisations, with some attention falling on business schools as providers of education and …

This article discusses the potential challenges of introducing corporate branding in public
sector organizations. While the corporate branding ideal is to seek a precise and coherent …