英文摘要 |
Based on the perspective of organizational identity, this study explores how enterprises renew their organizational capabilities. Organizational capabilities embedded in organizational identity and culture. If enterprises want to renew their core competences, their identity should be changed also. Thus, this study explores the following questions: What factors cause enterprises to change their organizational identity? How does a new organizational identity be formed? How does this new organizational identity affect the formation of new resources and routines and result in the renewal of organizational capabilities?
This study employs the case research method to explore the identity changing and capabilities renewing processes of four Taiwanese firms. Based on these longitudinal case studies, this study proposes four propositions as follows: (1) When enterprises face an environmental threat, the abstractness of organizational identity (abstract identity components) contribute to change concrete identity elements of organizational identity. (2) When enterprises face an environmental threat, the extraversion of organizational identity contribute to change concrete identity elements of organizational identity. (3) The new organizational identity will keep a moderate gap with the original identity. The identity gap of the abstract component between new and original organizational identity is smaller to maintain the deep structure identification of organizational members. The identity gap of the concrete identity component is larger but is dependent on whether the enterprise can leverage its resources and capabilities to the new industry. (4) The new organizational identity will drive the resource leveraging, learning, integrating, and reconfiguring processes in enterprises and thus renew resource compositions and organizational capabilities. |