Discussion

Abstract

After presenting the answer to the research question in 5.1, subchapter 5.2 will continue by firstly examining the specific role that organizational identification played for the organizational members in my empirical setting and secondly, by contrasting this positive dynamic and the resulting capacities of informal employee networks with findings from other scientific contributions. As some of those capacities have hardly been explicitly addressed in other works, I will present a first attempt to theoretically embed them in section 5.3, before addressing my research’s limitations in 5.4, and managerial implications as well as suggestions for further research in 5.5.