Organizational nationalism

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Research in Organizational Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI:10.1016/j.riob.2025.100219

Lori Qingyuan Yue, Yusaku Takeda

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Abstract

The global rise of nationalism has distorted the neoliberal vision of a borderless world where the nationality of businesses would be rendered obsolete. While nationalism can promote social solidarity and progress, it also has the potential to deepen divisions and fuel conflict—realities that organizations cannot ignore. In this paper, we propose a theory of organizational nationalism, which positions organizations not merely as passive responders to nationalist institutional pressures or geopolitical risks but as active agents in shaping nationalistic beliefs, values, and policies. Through theorizing how organizational nationalism manifests and functions, we offer insights into how organizations harness nationalism to motivate employees, cultivate consumer loyalty, and secure sociopolitical legitimacy, and how such engagement may eventually become an organizational commitment that shapes its nationalist character. This perspective fills a critical void in nationalism research by emphasizing the intermediary role played by organizations between the state and individual levels of nationalism. It also offers a unifying framework for the fragmented literature on nationalism in business, which spans topics from state influence on organizational forms to managing “foreignness” in multinational corporations. We conclude by outlining a research roadmap and promising research methodologies in this area.

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民族主义组织

民族主义在全球的崛起扭曲了新自由主义关于无国界世界的愿景，在这个世界上，企业的国籍将被淘汰。虽然民族主义可以促进社会团结和进步，但它也有可能加深分裂和加剧冲突——这是组织不能忽视的现实。在本文中，我们提出了一种组织民族主义理论，该理论认为组织不仅是民族主义制度压力或地缘政治风险的被动反应者，而且是塑造民族主义信仰、价值观和政策的积极行动者。通过将组织民族主义的表现和功能理论化，我们深入了解了组织如何利用民族主义来激励员工、培养消费者忠诚度和确保社会政治合法性，以及这种参与最终如何成为塑造其民族主义特征的组织承诺。这一视角通过强调组织在国家和个人层面的民族主义之间所起的中介作用，填补了民族主义研究中的一个关键空白。它还为关于商业民族主义的支离破碎的文献提供了一个统一的框架，这些文献涵盖了从国家对组织形式的影响到管理跨国公司的“外来性”等主题。最后，我们概述了该领域的研究路线图和有前途的研究方法。

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Research in Organizational Behavior Psychology-Social Psychology

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1.60

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期刊介绍： Research in Organizational Behavior publishes commissioned papers only, spanning several levels of analysis, and ranging from studies of individuals to groups to organizations and their environments. The topics encompassed are likewise diverse, covering issues from individual emotion and cognition to social movements and networks. Cutting across this diversity, however, is a rather consistent quality of presentation. Being both thorough and thoughtful, Research in Organizational Behavior is commissioned pieces provide substantial contributions to research on organizations. Many have received rewards for their level of scholarship and many have become classics in the field of organizational research.