Organizational identity and performance: an inquiry into nonconforming company names
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- dc.contributor.author Amore, Mario Daniele
- dc.contributor.author Epure, Mircea
- dc.contributor.author Garofalo, Orsola
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-23T07:44:29Z
- dc.date.available 2024-02-23T07:44:29Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract Choosing the right company name is challenging and may have major consequences for firm prospects. Drawing on the strategic conformity literature, we investigate the implications of “nonconforming” company names, i.e. foreign sounding and family-unrelated, for family firms’ performance. Consistent with the idea that such names endow the business with greater visibility and recognition, we find that nonconforming names are positively associated with financial performance. This association is stronger when the firm operates in an industry with a low share of nonconforming peers and a high share of eponymous peers, in a crowded product class, and is smaller than industry peers. Collectively, our analysis provides new evidence on the strategic implications of company names.
- dc.description.sponsorship Epure acknowledges the support from the Spanish Government through the grants PID2020-115660GB-I00/MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and CEX2019-000915-S; as well as from the Serra Húnter program. Usual disclaimers apply.
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- dc.identifier.citation Amore MD, Epure M, Garofalo O. Organizational identity and performance: an inquiry into nonconforming company names. Long Range Plann. 2024;57(1):102396. DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2023.102396
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2023.102396
- dc.identifier.issn 0024-6301
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59233
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Elsevier
- dc.relation.ispartof Long Range Planning. 2024;57(1):102396.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2020-115660GB-I00
- dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- dc.subject.keyword Organizational identity
- dc.subject.keyword Company names
- dc.subject.keyword Family firms
- dc.subject.keyword Performance
- dc.title Organizational identity and performance: an inquiry into nonconforming company names
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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