They (Don’t) Need Us: Functional Indispensability Impacts Perceptions of Representativeness and Commitment When Lower-Status Groups Go Through an Intergroup Merger

Rosa, Miriam; Giessner, Steffen R.; Guerra, Rita; Waldzus, Sven; Kersting, Anna-Maria; Veličković, Katarina; Collins, Elizabeth

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02772

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“…Thus, it would seem highly promising to extend this research to field studies and also reexamine the moderating role of merger motive. In future research, our reasoning could be integrated with recent research on the functional indispensability of lower‐status groups involved in a merger (Rosa et al., 2019). As this research has shown, employees from a lower‐status group might cope more effectively with the merger threat when they view their ingroup as functionally indispensable.…”

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The intergroup sensitivity effect in mergers and acquisitions: Testing the role of merger motives

Liang

Ullrich

Dick

et al. 2021

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Research has shown that people are more defensive to criticism when it stems from an outgroup member, compared to an ingroup member (the intergroup sensitivity effect: ISE). We conducted two online vignette experiments to examine the ISE in the context of an organizational merger and the role of merger motives for the ISE. We predicted that the ISE would also emerge in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), but people would respond less negatively to criticism from the outgroup when the motive for the merger is described as achieving synergies rather than growth. In Experiment 1 (N = 452), which did not mention any motives behind the acquisition, a significant ISE emerged. Experiment 2 (N = 587) again showed an ISE regardless of the merger motive. In both experiments, the ISE was mediated by perceptions of the outgroup criticism as less legitimate and constructive. Overall, this research points to the intergroup sensitivity effect as a relevant phenomenon during post‐merger integration.

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

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The intergroup sensitivity effect in mergers and acquisitions: Testing the role of merger motives

Liang

Ullrich

Dick

et al. 2021

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…Namely, for those who are members of low‐power groups and prospective members of a superordinate group, a sense of representativeness within the new group might be a necessary condition for mutually identifying with it and with one’s subgroup (see Sidanius et al., 2008). Research in the context of mergers finds representativeness to be a key driver of post‐merger identification with the superordinate group (Boen, Vanbeselaere, & Wostyn, 2010; Rosa et al., 2020), a relationship that might be mirrored in the context of EU integration. Our first research question for the quantitative study thus asks: How is supranational identification shaped by the perceived compatibility between sub‐ and superordinate groups, and what is the underlying role of power therein?…”

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“…The results indicate that identity compatibility is key: When perceptions of identity compatibility were low, such that Serbia was perceived as relatively unrepresentative of Europe, the relationship between Serbian and European identity was negative. In contrast, when perceptions of compatibility were high, the relationship became positive, indicating that sense of representativeness can play an important role in making sub‐ and superordinate group identities mutually supportive (see Rosa et al., 2020). Identity compatibility was in turn predicted by the perceived current power of Serbia in Europe, and mediated the path between power in Europe and European identification.…”

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“…To gauge whether Serbs saw their nation as representative of a European ingroup, we drew on Devos and Banaji's (2005) measure of associations between a subgroup and a superordinate group. This proxy for compatibility was chosen over common measures of prototypicality (which focus on rating an ingroup, outgroup and superordinate group on attributes to compare compatibility, i.e., Wenzel et al., 2003) because previous research with low‐power prospective subgroups has found representativeness to play a key role in shaping superordinate identification (Rosa et al., 2020). Specifically, participants were presented with the same list of seven countries, and asked to rate them on a 7‐point scale (1: Not at all European, 7: Extremely European):

Bring to mind individuals who were born and live in the greater European area.…”

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“…These reactions can be seen as strategies aimed at restoring the group’s sense of distinctiveness vis‐à‐vis relevant others. Research on mergers, as a form of subgroup to superordinate group transition, shows how a sense of continuity impacts identification with the superordinate group, and, in turn, commitment to change (Rosa et al., 2020).…”

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They (Don’t) Need Us: Functional Indispensability Impacts Perceptions of Representativeness and Commitment When Lower-Status Groups Go Through an Intergroup Merger

Cited by 8 publications

References 83 publications

The intergroup sensitivity effect in mergers and acquisitions: Testing the role of merger motives

The intergroup sensitivity effect in mergers and acquisitions: Testing the role of merger motives

Power, identity, and belonging: A mixed‐methods study of the processes shaping perceptions of EU integration in a prospective member state

The interplay of psychological contract breach, stress and job outcomes during organizational restructuring

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