Co-creating Relationship Repair: Pathways to Reconstructing Destabilized Organizational Identification

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 518-557

  Petriglieri, Jennifer Louise ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

ambivalence resolution; BP Gulf incident; organizational identification; organizational identity; reidentification; relationship repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938600530     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839215579234     Document Type: Article

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