Abstract
Organizational imprinting hypothesis suggests that institutional environment at founding shapes organizational identities. But it remains ambiguous as to how organizational identities are shaped under institutional pluralism, where multiple institutional constituents co-exist and compete for the attention of the entrepreneurs. In this paper, we theorize how organizational identities are shaped by the interactions between different institutional constituents. An investigation of the linguistic identity choices of newspapers founded in India between 1948 and 2008 lend support to our thesis that the ability of dominant institutional constituents to shape organizational identities at founding is contingent on the strengths of their challengers and allies.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Academy of Management Proceedings |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - West Meets East: Enlightening, Balancing, Transcending, AOM 2011 - San Antonio, TX, United States Duration: 12 Aug 2011 → 16 Aug 2011 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Free Keywords
- Institutional pluralism
- Organizational identity
- Organizational imprinting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Management of Technology and Innovation
- Industrial relations
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