Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Organizational Identity and Emerging Industries
研究了新兴行业中组织身份的形成过程，认为组织身份由时间差异（身份随时间稳定）和空间差异（与其他企业的比较）共同构建，并以澳大利亚商业教练行业为例说明。
In this article we examine the process of organizational identity formation in emerging industries. We argue that organizational identity is best understood in terms of the relationship between temporal difference (i.e. the performance of a stable identity over time) and spatial difference (i.e. by locating organizational identity in relation to other firms, both similar and different). It is the relationship between these two forms of difference that enables the construction of a legitimate sense of organizational identity. Our discussion is illustrated using empirical material from a study of the emerging industry of business coaching in Australia.