Imperial College London

DrIleanaStigliani

Business School

Associate Professor of Design and Innovation
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9228i.stigliani

 
 
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Location

 

298Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Stigliani:2018:10.1111/joms.12403,
author = {Stigliani, I and Elsbach, KD},
doi = {10.1111/joms.12403},
journal = {Journal of Management Studies},
pages = {1323--1355},
title = {Identity co-formation in an emerging industry: forging organizational distinctiveness and industry coherence through sensemaking and sensegiving},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.12403},
volume = {55},
year = {2018}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We inductively studied the sensemaking and sensegiving processes used by industry founders in the coformation of organizational and industry identities in the emerging industry of Service Design. Our findings illustrate how the sensemaking and sensegiving processes that revolved around the new “Service Design” label allowed the two sets of industry founders to forge both distinctive organizational identities and a coherent industry identity. The new label was, thus, used as a central “carrier” for both holding meanings (in terms of distinctive principles and common practices) developed through sensemaking, and for transferring these meanings respectively to organizational and industry identities through sensegiving. These insights illuminate how industry founders can address the tension between organizational distinctiveness and industry coherence in emerging industries, and have important implications for theory and future research on identity coformation and its underlying sensemaking and sensegiving processes.
AU - Stigliani,I
AU - Elsbach,KD
DO - 10.1111/joms.12403
EP - 1355
PY - 2018///
SN - 0022-2380
SP - 1323
TI - Identity co-formation in an emerging industry: forging organizational distinctiveness and industry coherence through sensemaking and sensegiving
T2 - Journal of Management Studies
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.12403
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/62791
VL - 55
ER -