Organizations and categorical stigmatization
An organizational identity perspective
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Organizational identity, Category, Stigma, Social evaluationAbstract
Due to the increasing importance of social evaluation for organizations and the growing attention to stigma——a concept describing negative social evaluation——from organizational sociologists, this paper provides a literature review of the relationship between organizations and categorical stigmatization. This paper particularly focuses on categorical stigmatization instead of stigma because of both the categorical and dynamic nature of stigma. Nevertheless, this paper also takes an organizational identity perspective for organizations because the socio-cognitive nature of organizational identity connects to categorical stigmatization. After a brief introduction to organizational identity, category, and stigma, two directions for future research on categorical stigmatization are provided: (a) the interaction between organizational identity and categorical stigmatization and (b) the development of measures for categorical stigmatization. This paper contributes to the literature on organizational identity, categories, and stigma.
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