Organizational Identity and Self-Awareness: Creating Convergence Between Enterprise Engineering and Organizational Design

Abstract

In this chapter, a proposal is made for framework aimed at bringing about a convergence between the concepts of organizational self-awareness (OSA) and organizational identity, as part of a much needed integration effort between enterprise engineering and a situated interpretation of organizational design. Such a proposal is presented with human-centered design as the intellectual background. As aforementioned, one aim of the proposal is to identify potential research topics. The integrated framework fosters multidisciplinary studies that take into account both identity and organizational awareness issues. In particular, the framework is intended at promoting studies aimed at assessing the effect that OSA tools, methodologies, or models have on organizational identity. Conversely, it also aims at informing studies that develop forms of organizational self-awareness, based on theories of organizational identity.