Abstract
Radical technological changes often threaten firms’ organizational identity and necessitate them to reinvent themselves, if they can. To contribute to research on firm responses to radical technological change, we adopt a multifaceted view of organizational identity and emphasize that who or what a firm is, is as important as what a firm does and why. We explore this identity-strategy nexus using a qualitative, multi-case study of Dutch music companies responding to the emergence of digitalization. Our analysis identifies three response mechanisms, which provide an alternative explanation for the heterogeneity in firm responses to the same radical technological change.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Academy of Management Proceedings |
| Publisher | AOM |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Volume | 2024 |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Event | 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2024 - Chicago, United States Duration: 9 Aug 2024 → 13 Aug 2024 |
Publication series
| Name | Academy of Management Proceedings |
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| Publisher | Academy of Management |
| ISSN (Print) | 0065-0668 |
Conference
| Conference | 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2024 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Chicago |
| Period | 9/08/24 → 13/08/24 |
Bibliographical note
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