Establishment of sustainable organizational identity: proposition of anthropomorphism, agile leadership, organizational change, and competitive advantage

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Table 1. Variables relate to organizational identity.

No	Researches	Antecedent/ Consequences/ Moderating/ Mediating/ Construct	Analysis Unit
1.	Yip et al. (2010); Cheng and Wang (2015);	Leadership	Organization
2.	Xing and Liu (2016); Bayle-Cordier et al. (2015); Aitken and von Treuer (2021); Ravasi and Phillips (2011); Walsh and Glynn (2008).	Leadership	Individual
3.	Dutton et al. (1994)	Attributes consistency of member, image, organization, organization relationship, visibility with organization	Individual
4.	Fiol (2001)	Member experiment	Individual
5.	Olkkonen and Lipponen (2006)	Organizational fairness	Individual
6.	Cole and Bruch (2006)	Commitment and turnover intention	Individual
7.	Hesar et al. (2019)	Transformational leadership	Individual
8.	Chen (2011)	Environmental leadership	Organization
9	Schaubroeck et al. (2013)	Trust	Individual
10.	Akbari et al. (2014); Omanwar and Agrawal (2022)	Serving leadership	Organization
11.	Loi et al. (2014)	Leader-member exchange	Individual
12.	Golant et al. (2015)	Organizational leader	Individual
13.	Smidts et al. (2001)	Information dan communication climate	Individual
14.	Van den Broeck et al. (2016)	Collective leadership	Individual
15.	Natifu (2016)	Resource (sufficient staff)	Individual
16.	Zhang et al. (2017)	Engagement and supervisor rated	Individual
17.	Zhu et al. (2017)	Changes in prestige and identity	Individual
18.	Al-Zawahreh et al. (2018)	Environmental Commitment	Organization
19.	Ashforth et al. (2020)	Sensemaking and social relation	Individual
20.	Ko and Choi (2021)	Positive leadership	Individual
21.	Chang and Hung (2021)	Green product psychological ownership, green knowledge sharing	Organization
22.	Pramudya and Schmuck (2022)	Loyalty	Individual

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Figure 1. Visualization of Organizational Identity Construct Network.

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Figure 2. Research of Organizational Identity.

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Table 2. Theory in organizational identity.

No	Theory	Researcher
1.	Theory of Social Identity	Chen et al. (2022); Pramudya and Schmuck (2022); Hesar et al. (2019); Zhang et al. (2017); Zhu et al. (2017); Korschun (2015); Vora and Kostova (2007); Cole and Bruch (2006)
2.	Identity Theory	Chang and Hung (2021); Al-Zawahreh et al. (2018); Chen (2011)
3.	Theory of Social Cognition	Zhang et al. (2017)
4.	Theory of Psychological Ownership	Chang and Hung (2021)
5.	Theory of Social Trade	Zhang et al. (2017); Cole and Bruch (2006)
6.	Theory of Self Category	Dwyer (2015), Alnawas and Altarifi (2016)
7.	Theory of Stakeholder	Korschun (2015)

Sources: previous research.

Table 3. Methodology of previous researches.

Research Methodology	Research Theme
	The engagement organization process	Organizational identity as organization source	Critical organizational identity success factors	Organizational identity operations support	Total
Conceptual	8	4	20	2	34
Empirical Grounded Theory	3	2	14	4	23
Interview	7	1	27	4	39
Survey	–	2	18	2	22
Total	18	9	79	12	118

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Table 4. Definition of variables.

Variable	Definition	Dimension
Sustainable Organizational Identity	Organizational properties (engagement, loyalty, perception, similarity) had by the members toward their organization as sustainable and consistent work and construct (Albert & Whetten, 1985; Baumgartner, 2009; Pei, 2019).	Strong internal and emotional engagement; loyalty towards organizational values and goals (Miller et al., 2000).
Anthropomorphism	Attribution of human characteristics (physic, motivation, intention, emotion) towards non-human objects (Haslam & Ellemers, 2005; Waytz et al., 2010).	Human uniqueness and human nature (Haslam & Ellemers, 2005)
Agile Leadership	Leaders’ behavior to make wise and effective decision in the middle of uncertain and complex situation (Joiner & Josephs, 2007).	Performance orientation, team orientation, authority, flexibility, rapidness, and change orientation (Akkaya, 2020).
Competitive Advantage	Achievement of beneficial and sustainable industry position (Porter, 1985).	Cost, quality, efficiency, innovation, performance (Kamukama et al., 2011; Porter, 1985).

Sources: previous research.

Figure 3. Proposed Model.

Source: Elaboration of Theory, Proposition Development, and Previous Research.

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