Drawing on empirical data from a recent study of the resettlement practices, challenges and concerns of privately sponsored refugees and sponsor groups in Ontario, Canada, we examine how Orientalist ...scripts of refuge frame "the Syrian refugee crisis" but are interactively challenged and reconfigured in the sponsor-sponsored relationship. Key to this contestation are the pre-conflict practical identities through which "refugees" assert their authority to act as "persons of self-rescue" in pursuit of a life beyond refuge. Relatedly, their authority to act is impeded or enhanced in their interaction with sponsors whose corporate group identity, formed in response to community expectations, policy obligations, media representations, and personal motivations, is a conduit of (mis)recognition. Focusing on resettlement practices of refugeeness, we argue that the Canadian private sponsorship scheme provides deep insight into refugee-host relations.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to conceptually and empirically explore and challenge the dogma of Corporate visual identity (CVI) consistency. The goal is to nuance the current polarized debate ...of consistency or no consistency.
Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative research strategy is employed in this paper. Specifically, the empirical work rests on an interview study with strategists from ten different CVI agencies. The interview transcripts are analyzed using template analysis.
Findings
In terms of findings, both empirical and conceptual arguments for and against CVI consistency are presented. Many of these arguments rest on conflicting assumptions of CVI communication, CVI authenticity and CVI management, which all influence the debate of CVI consistency.
Practical implications
CVI practitioners are presented with a more reflective approach to dealing with consistency and hands on examples for inspiration.
Originality/value
This paper offers alternative and more nuanced conceptualizations of CVI consistency. This includes seeing consistency and inconsistency as ends of a spectrum to be balanced rather than mutually exclusive and by differentiating between consistency across platforms and consistency over time – coined CVI continuity. Furthermore, several future research areas that can help to further develop the field of CVI are suggested.
Cultural intelligence underpins the interaction between firms and their cultural environments as the domain of external sources that are explored and utilised for innovation through absorptive ...capacity. This research seeks to answer the question of if and how cultural intelligence moderates the links between innovativeness and potential and realised absorptive capacity. We test our hypotheses based on data from 215 firms operating in Poland. We demonstrate that cultural intelligence strengthens the linkage between potential absorptive capacity and innovativeness that highlights cultural intelligence as an important enabler of exploring new and diverse external knowledge sources. We discuss cultural intelligence concept in relation to strategic management and reveal its contingent role in innovativeness.
This study includes a conceptual analysis of organizational identity and image from the early sixties to the last decade. It is found that both the image and identity have been sufficiently discussed ...in the literature as contributing to the growth and development of organizations, if handled the right way, or destroy the company if it is not managed on solid foundations. Finally a model that relates both concepts and establishes how identity affects the image of an organization is presented.
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of corporate identity modeling. Corporate identity is an abstract concept that takes many forms, from the brand and logo, to the product ...and the company's reputation. One of the keys to a successful business presence hinges on effective management of corporate identity. The paper seeks to explain the stages that are involved in developing, then assessing, a model of corporate identity, which has academic rigor and managerial relevance.Design methodology approach - The process started by postulating a "six-station" model that should assist firms to build and manage their corporate identities effectively. This was done by reviewing the corporate identity literature and appreciating the limitations of existing models. The literature review indicated that ten criteria were important for the creation of a robust model and the six-station model was based on these. The six-station model was then investigated by means of a single hypothesis. Two empirical phases - qualitative and quantitative - accompanied the study to test the hypothesis.Findings - The validity of the six-station model was corroborated by the research, which indicated that the six-station model was considered by managers and consultants to be a valid and reliable model in managing the concept of identity and describing the way corporate identity operates.Originality value - A logical approach was employed in constructing the model, which was assessed for validity and managerial applicability. The model provides a conceptual framework for analysis of the identity development process, and is not intended as a mechanical model of what is in reality a continuous, synergistic and non-linear process. Developments in later stages do not always depend exclusively on causes arising from the previous stage. It is believed that by postulating a corporate identity model, which meets key criteria for robustness, and providing some indication of its managerial applicability, researchers will be stimulated to consider how refinements can be made to corporate identity models by initiating and implementing closer dialogue between researchers and practitioners.
This study approaches the history of China's public relations (PR) industry from the perspective of modernity. Coupled with China's modern transformation and modernization since the late 1970s, ...Chinese PR industry and practitioners sought to establish legitimacy in the following 30 years. Three developmental stages are identified: Introduction and Enlightenment (1978-1992), Marketization and Professionalization (1992-2003), and Diversification (2003-present). In each stage, the theme and practice of PR interplayed with China's modernization and modern transformation. Situated under unique political, economic, and social contexts, China's PR faced, and is still facing, crises in reputation, utility, social values, identity, legitimacy, and professional ethics.
An organization's identity, symbolized by its corporate name, is rooted in institutional fields. We advance the construct of symbolic isomorphism, or the resemblance of an organization's symbolic ...attributes to those of others within its institutional field, and examine its effects on the homogenization of names and legitimacy. We review historical naming patterns and present two studies that examine the antecedents and outcomes of name conformity: The first analyzes 1,600 name changes to demonstrate how institutional conformity shapes organizational identities, and the second surveys public audiences and delineates how symbolic isomorphism serves as a touchstone for legitimacy.
The article explores the influence of ‘1968’ on the West German fair trade movement. It argues that 1968 constituted an ambivalent legacy for the perception of mass consumerism: while the 1960s ...student movement radically criticised modern consumer society, it also put new emphasis on consumer products as markers of individual identity. The article analyses this relationship by focusing on the design, representation and advertising of fair trade products by the German fair trade organation GEPA. The first two case studies examine the politicisation of fair trade products in its early campaigns in the 1970s and the subsequent attempts to use everyday products like coffee, tea and honey to educate consumers about their individual lifestyles. The third case study looks at the GEPA's first mail-order catalogues and asks how the GEPA tried to transform an icon of modern mass consumerism into a tool to communicate its fair trade approach.
A family business, understood as a business-family-individual system, combines three value systems: business, family and individual values. Values expressed by the owners and successors of the family ...business determine a management model, as well as a reputation management model which should ensure its continuity and long-term operation. The study investigates the most important values in the process of reputation management in family businesses. We conducted quantitative research among the owners of family businesses and their potential successors (300 respondents). The results indicate that values such as a consistent image, education and knowledge, family reputation, trust, heritage and durability, company honour, profit are of particular importance for reputation-building.
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