Organizational Identity and Firm Growth ─ Properties of Growth, Contextual Identities and Micro-Level Processes

This edited volume focuses on the interplay betweenorganizational identities and firm growth, an area which remains largely unexplored.Firm growth in its various forms is omnipresent in the contemporary businessenvironment, but does not always lead to positive results. At the same time,some organizations are growing faster than their peers, leading to questions oforganizational growth antecedents. In addition to the dominant economic reasonsin strategic literature, the volume seeks to integrate psychological aspects tothe discourse, thereby considering the micro, meso and macro level. Byproviding both insights into international academic thinking and into practicalexamples of small and medium-sized companies in Berlin, the authorsidentify new findings concerning successful growth strategies.

Christoph Dorrenbacher is Professor of Organizational Designand Behavior in International Business and Director of the Berlin Institute forInternational Business Studies (BIIBS) at the Berlin School of Economics andLaw, Germany.

Matthias Tomenendal is Professor of Management and Consulting,and Director of the IMB Institute of Management Berlin at the Berlin School ofEconomics and Law, Germany.

Sarah Stanske is a Doctoral Candidate at the EuropeanUniversity Viadrina, Germany, and the German Graduate School of Management andLaw.