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Do Group and Organizational Identification Help or Hurt Intergroup Strategic Consensus?
Journal of management, v 46(2)
01 Feb 2020
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Abstract
Implementing strategy demands an organizationwide effort, where teams should not operate in isolation. A challenge many organizations face in implementing their strategy is eradicating silo thinking and creating shared understanding of strategy between interdependent teams-that is, intergroup strategic consensus. However, strategy process research is silent on how such intergroup strategic consensus can emerge. Drawing on social identity theory, we offer a lens to understand what influences the degree of intergroup strategic consensus. We unveil a tension between organizational and group identification such that organizational identification enhances intergroup strategic consensus, whereas group identification reduces it. Moreover, we hypothesize that high group identification crowds out positive effects of organizational identification on intergroup strategic consensus. Data from 451 intergroup relationships between 92 teams within a service organization support these hypotheses. We replicate our results using 191 intergroup relationships between 37 teams from another organization. These results allow us to develop an understanding of intergroup strategic consensus, expand the conversation in strategy process research to between-team interdependencies, and challenge the assumption in management literature and practice that higher identification is always desirable.
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- Title
- Do Group and Organizational Identification Help or Hurt Intergroup Strategic Consensus?
- Creators
- Jeanine Pieternel Porck - Oklahoma State University*Daan van Knippenberg - Drexel UniversityMurat Tarakci - Erasmus University RotterdamNuefer Yasin Ates - Bilkent Univ, Ankara, TurkeyPatrick J. F. Groenen - Erasmus University RotterdamMarco de Haas - S-ray Diagnostics
- Publication Details
- Journal of management, v 46(2)
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 27
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Management
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000507398900002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85050514958
- Other Identifier
- 991019182656204721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Business
- Management
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