Organizational Substance and Consubstantiality: A Study of Organizational Identification in a Young Political Party

• In Event: Am I Part of This Organization? Organizational Identification

Abstract

In this paper, we argue that organizational identification may be understood as a mode of communication that brings the substance of an organization to the surface. After developing this new conception based on extant literature, we show how this view can be used to understand the ways in which an organization’s substance is coproduced through an analysis of a debate involving delegates from a newly founded political party.

Authors

• Mathieu Chaput, Université de Montréal

• Francois Cooren, Université de Montréal

• Boris H. J. M. Brummans, Université de Montréal