Strategic Consensus Between Groups: A Social Identity Perspective
2012-11-28
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Despite the obvious task interdependence between groups within the organization, strategic consensus between groups has received very little attention. Grounded in social identity theory, this field study examines the relationship between groups’ identifications and strategic consensus between groups. Data from 3828 dyads of organizational groups support the predictions that in a dyad the group with the strongest group identification is the limiting factor for the degree of between-group consensus. For organizational identification, in contrast, the group with the weakest organizational identification in a dyad is the determining factor for the degree of consensus between the groups. Additionally, dyads with higher average intergroup anxiety have lower between-group consensus. We discuss how these findings speak to the promise of a social identity perspective on between-group strategic consensus.
- strategic consensus
- social identity
- group and organizational identification
- intergroup anxiety
- intergroup relations
- M12 : Personnel Management
- M10 : Business Administration: General
- L20 : Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
- M00 : Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting: General
- group
- consensus
- identification
- organization
- anxiety
- between-group
- group identification
- research
- identity
- between-group consensus
- management
- relation
- journal
- study
- level
- process
- degree
- perspective
- member
- identity perspective
