“…Thus, despite the existence of a series of studies on oi construction (e.g., Brown & Lewis, 2011;Coupland & Brown, 2004;Denissen, 2010;Fiol, 2002;Gonzales-Miranda & Uribe-Correa, 2018;Hinsley, 2017;Humphreys & Brown, 2002b;Madsen, 2016;Pendse & Ojha, 2017, among others) and the fact that some researchers deal with some of the dimensions of identity formation in organizations (Clegg et al, 2007;Corley & Gioia, 2004;Czarniawska & Wolff, 1998), there are not thorough studies about the way ois are formed in their beginning (Gioia, Price, Hamilton, & Thomas, 2010). For these authors, only three works have studied oi formation per se: Czarniawska and Wolff (1998), Clegg et al (2007), and Corley and Gioia (2004).…”