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The Structuration of Identification on Organizational Members’ Social Media
Piercy, Cameron W. Carr, Caleb T.
Piercy, Cameron W.
Carr, Caleb T.
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The structurational model of identification is applied to test structures that may lead to sharing organizational membership on social media and increased organizational identification. We propose and test how antecedents (e.g., social media use, organizational prestige) relate to acts of identification on social media and promote organizational identification. United States working adults (N = 303) responded to an online survey about hypothesized motivational structures, online disclosures of organizational affiliation, and organizational identification. Results show three specific structures significantly predicted one’s willingness to share her or his organizational affiliation across social media: personae overlap, social media use, and organizational prestige. Commitment and turnover intentions were, surprisingly, not direct predictors of organizational affiliation disclosure. Implications for individuals, organizations, and both organizational and computer-mediated theory are presented.
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2020-09-10
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SAGE Publications
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Online identification, Social networking sites, Commitment, Structuration, Identity management
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Piercy CW, Carr CT. The Structuration of Identification on Organizational Members’ Social Media. International Journal of Business Communication. September 2020. doi:10.1177/2329488420955215