2005-06-01
The configuration of organizational images among firms in the Canadian beer brewing industry
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Journal of Management Studies , Volume 42 - Issue 4 p. 817- 843
We integrate the literature on organizational image management and neo-institutional theory to arrive at a better understanding of how organizations routinely represent themselves positively in their external environment. Drawing on a cross-sectional exploratory study of the website communications of 36 firms in the Canadian brewing industry, we investigate how these organizations construct essential and distinctive organizational images in reference to a map of identity attributes and image categories at the organizational field level. We conclude that organizational self-categorizations explain the field-level configuration of images we discovered by establishing legitimacy claims targeted at relevant stakeholders.
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doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00520.x, hdl.handle.net/1765/11532 | |
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Lamertz, K., Heugens, P., & Calmet, L. (2005). The configuration of organizational images among firms in the Canadian beer brewing industry. Journal of Management Studies, 42(4), 817–843. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00520.x |