Studying Organizations: Identity, Pluralism, And Change

This special issue is the outcome of a Call for paper that has involved the community of organizational scholars, in the aftermath of the XX WOA (Workshop on Organization) Palermo 2019. The workshop has brought together the community of organization scholars around the concept of identity and it has represented a twofold chance: on the one hand, they dealt with organizational identity, to be inquired by the category of design and behaviour, on the other they dealt with the identity of organization studies, that are characterised by a strong disciplinary pluralism, and therefore, unavoidably, with the theme of how to address change as "sparring partner" of our theoretical-disciplinary statute. Thus, an opportunity for comparing it with an oxymoron: “stable change". This (apparent, or real?) oxymoron has numerous declinations in our community of researchers and teachers of organizational studies.