Postmerger integration processes have been studied from the perspectives of organizational identity and organizational culture, but these two perspectives have rarely been integrated. We argue that organizational identification and organizational culture differences give rise to two different...

We study the effects of organizational code-preserving and code-violating changes on external evaluations by third parties – an essential but under-studied strategic outcome. We define codepreserving changes as a variation in the firm’s product range that preserves the social code within...