Before Identity: The Emergence of New Organizational Forms
研究了新组织形式涌现前的微观社会过程，从社会心理学和社会学身份形成理论出发，解释个体认同和集体身份发展如何促进相似组织集群的形成，从而被受众识别和区分。
The evolution of new organizational forms has attracted growing theoretical and empirical attention, but little research has considered the microsocial processes that promote the emergence of groups of quasi-similar organizations that sometimes evolve into new organizational forms. Drawing from social psychological and sociological theories of identity formation, we explain processes of individual identification and collective identity development that precede and promote the formation of similar clusters, which audiences can then recognize and distinguish from established organizational populations and other emerging similarity clusters.