This paper elucidates the political dynamics of organizational identity breach and reconstruction. Drawing on the revealing case of UNICEF Germany, we develop a process model of four phases of identity breach and reconstruction: build-up of identity tensions, revelation of identity breach, identity reconstruction, and enactment of the reconstructed identity. Our analysis explains how each phase was characterized by specific political strategies employed by the managerialist and idealist organizational members, the effects of these strategies on the power balance and consensus or conflict over organizational identity, and how particular triggers explain shifts from one phase to another. By so doing, our analysis advances our understanding of organizational identity breach and reconstruction as political processes, and paves the way for new studies of political identity dynamics in other contexts.

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组织身份破坏和重建中的政治动态：联合国儿童基金会德国危机的调查结果

本文阐明了组织身份破坏和重建的政治动态。借鉴联合国儿童基金会德国的揭露案例，我们开发了身份破坏和重建四个阶段的过程模型：身份紧张的积累、身份破坏的揭示、身份重建和重建身份的制定。我们的分析解释了每个阶段如何以管理主义和理想主义组织成员所采用的特定政治策略为特征，这些策略对权力平衡和共识或组织身份冲突的影响，以及特定触发因素如何解释从一个阶段到另一个阶段的转变。通过这样做，我们的分析增进了我们对作为政治过程的组织身份破坏和重建的理解，