{"id":11424,"date":"2025-08-01T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/publikation\/identity-leadership-in-chinese-based-mas-a-case-study-of-a-french-firm\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:08:45","slug":"identity-leadership-in-chinese-based-mas-a-case-study-of-a-french-firm","status":"publish","type":"publikation","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/publikation\/identity-leadership-in-chinese-based-mas-a-case-study-of-a-french-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Leadership in Chinese-based M&amp;As: A Case Study of a French Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M&amp;A literature has pointed to the importance of leaders in creating a shared post-merger organizational identification. Yet we lack knowledge of how leaders foster or hinder organizational identity construction, especially in CBM&amp;As involving high in-group and out-group demarcation and cultural differences, such as in Chinese-based M&amp;As. In this paper, we draw on the social identity approach to study how leadership in executive management teams operates as a collective process of influence of Chinese and European team members. We conducted a longitudinal case study of a French acquisition in China, which involved conflicts and the demarcation of ingroups and outgroups. Our findings reveal how the French CEO and the Chinese Chairman mobilized the senior management. Their identity leadership acts aligned with the \u201cChina for the World\u201d strategy at Time 1, with Chinese team members following, while French identity leadership focused on \u201cIn China for China+1.\u201d At Time 2, the Chairman and Chinese managers shifted to \u201cIn China for China+1,\u201d while the French CEO and French managers supported \u201cChina for the world.\u201d We show how the management sub-groups may align on leadership acts but at different points in time. Results shed light on how a foreign CEO can become part of the ingroup for Chinese managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aom.org\/doi\/abs\/10.5465\/AMPROC.2025.18924abstract#pane-pcw-figures\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wegener, Anna Lupina; Dick, Rolf van; Haslam, Alexander (2025): \u201e\u201c. In: Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025 (1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11320,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"publikation_cat":[172],"disciplines":[200],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11424","publikation","type-publikation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publikation_cat-journal-article","disciplines-economics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/11424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikation"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publikation_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation_cat?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}