被希望劫持:非营利组织中使命漂移和身份稀释的动态

IF 0.5 4区 管理学 Q4 BUSINESS
Sophie Marie Cappelen, J. Strandgaard
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摘要

本文探讨了组织身份和使命是如何通过记忆和遗忘的过程构建和复制的。在将组织记忆视为战略资源的文献基础上,本文展示了历史、记忆和过去对组织弹性和生存的促进作用。虽然时间叙事可以作为一种修辞工具来构建过去、现在和未来之间的一致性,但我们发现它们也有可能偏离和劫持组织的方向。我们的研究表明,过度关注未来会导致使命漂移和身份淡化。然而,身份淡化可以通过重访和回忆过去来解决。组织的过去不仅是身份建构的战略资源,也是组织可能(重新)发现其原始目的的时间锚。这些发现是基于一个非营利性组织的定性的、深入的、人种学的案例研究,该组织的目标是建立一个全国性的地方学校花园网络。
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Hijacked by Hope: Dynamics of Mission Drift and Identity Dilution in a Nonprofit Organization
This article addresses how organizational identity and mission are constructed and reproduced over time through processes of remembering and forgetting. Building on literature that views organizational memory as a strategic resource, this paper showcases the enabling effects of history, memory, and the past for organiza- tional resilience and survival. Although temporal narratives may be employed as rhetorical tools to construct coherency between the past, present, and future, we find they also have the potential of sidetracking and hijacking an organization’s direction. Our study shows how an excessive focus on the future can cause mission drift and identity dilution. However, the identity dilution can be resolved through revisiting and remembering the past. The organizational past is not merely a strategic resource for identity construction, it is also a temporal anchor from which the organization may (re)discover its original purpose. The findings are based on a qualitative, in-depth, ethnographic case study of a nonprofit organization whose goal is to establish a national network of local school gardens.
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