Given that women executives are present in the top management teams of IPO firms in increasing numbers, the lack of female-led IPO firms is a curious fact, especially since women-owned private businesses represent almost half of the new businesses formed in the United States, with patterns of...

In this paper, we present a model of organizational identity, generating specific, testable propositions. In particular, we extend the conceptualization of the features of organizational identity beyond what is central, distinctive and enduring to include the crystallization of identity, pivotal...