Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes in Organizational Contexts

Abstract

Although aspects of social identity theory are familiar to organizational psychologists, its elaboration, through self-categorization theory, of how social categorization and prototype-based depersonalization actually produce social identity effects is less well known. We describe these processes, relate self-categorization theory to social identity theory, describe new theoretical developments in detail, and show how these developments can address a range of organizational phenomena. We discuss cohesion and deviance, leadership, subgroup and sociodemographic structure, and mergers and acquisitions.

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Michael A. Hogg, Deborah J. Terry (2000). Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes in Organizational Contexts. Academy of Management Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/259266

@article{a2000social,
  title  = {Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes in Organizational Contexts},
  author = {Hogg, Michael A. and Terry, Deborah J.},
  year   = {2000},
  journal = {Academy of Management Review},
  doi    = {10.2307/259266}
}

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