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%T Group Status as a Determinant of Organizational Identification After a Takeover: A Social Identity Perspective %A Boen, Filip %A Vanbeselaere, Norbert %A Cool, Marijke %J Group Processes & Intergroup Relations %N 4 %P 547-560 %V 9 %D 2006 %K group status; organizational mergers; social identity; %= 2011-03-01T05:48:00Z %~ http://www.peerproject.eu/ %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-228028 %X This study investigates the relation between the perceived status of an organization after a takeover (i.e. post-merger status) on employees’ identification with this new organization (i.e. their post-merger identification). Respondents were 234 employees of a corrugated board producing company, which had taken over a smaller company eight months before. As hypothesized, post-merger status was positively related to organizational identification among employees of the lower-status pre-merger company, but they were not related among employees of the higher-status company. Also in line with the expectations, post-merger status was positively related to organizational identification among employees who had identified weakly with their pre-merger group, but not among employees who had identified strongly with their pre-merger group. %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info