Volume 17, 2006
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting
Julie Bayle-Cordier
Pages 58-63
Acquiring Responsible Organizations
A Resource Based View and Organizational Identity Perspective
This paper develops the argument that the acquisition of responsible organizations can be a source of competitive advantage for acquiring firms. We argue
that corporate responsibility identity is a tacit and strategic resource because it is valuable, rare, non-imitable and non-substitutable. We postulate that organizational identity is a useful framework to better understand corporate responsibility identity. Finally, we argue that to capitalize on the acquisition of responsible organizations, acquiring firms must engage in critical self-reflexivity and be willing to modify their organizational identity.