The purpose of this paper is to understand how a former family firm strategically makes use of the founder's legacy to preserve its organizational identity. Following a single case study approach, it draws on rich empirical material from semi-structured interviews and extensive archival data. We show how central organizational activities are affected by a founder's heritage long after the formal exit has taken place, illustrating the central, enduring, and distinctive elements of organizational identity a founder has. Regardless of ownership forms, the family company founder's legacy is used to legitimize new owners and maintain the organization's identity. However, centripetal moves complicate the preservation of the organizational identit...
Linking the literature on brand management and family firms, this paper explores how family firms ma...
In this article we formally introduce and explicate the organisational heritage notion. The authors ...
Ongoing efforts to redefine and deconstruct the boundaries of archival theory are increasingly empha...
The purpose of this paper is to understand how a former family firm strategically makes use of the f...
There has been growing interest in the rhetorical use of history to express organizational identity ...
The legacy of organizational founders is a comparatively under-studied topic. Through two in-depth c...
The legacy of organizational founders is a comparatively under-studied topic. Through two in-depth c...
The legacy of organizational founders is a comparatively under-studied topic. Through two in-depth c...
The legacy of organizational founders is a comparatively under-studied topic. Through two in-depth c...
Linking the literature on brand management and family firms, this paper explores how family firms ma...
International audienceIn what way does a leader influence an organisation when traces of her/his pre...
International audienceIn what way does a leader influence an organisation when traces of her/his pre...
International audienceIn what way does a leader influence an organisation when traces of her/his pre...
International audienceIn what way does a leader influence an organisation when traces of her/his pre...
In this article we formally introduce and explicate the organisational heritage notion. The authors ...
Linking the literature on brand management and family firms, this paper explores how family firms ma...
In this article we formally introduce and explicate the organisational heritage notion. The authors ...
Ongoing efforts to redefine and deconstruct the boundaries of archival theory are increasingly empha...
The purpose of this paper is to understand how a former family firm strategically makes use of the f...
There has been growing interest in the rhetorical use of history to express organizational identity ...
The legacy of organizational founders is a comparatively under-studied topic. Through two in-depth c...
The legacy of organizational founders is a comparatively under-studied topic. Through two in-depth c...
The legacy of organizational founders is a comparatively under-studied topic. Through two in-depth c...
The legacy of organizational founders is a comparatively under-studied topic. Through two in-depth c...
Linking the literature on brand management and family firms, this paper explores how family firms ma...
International audienceIn what way does a leader influence an organisation when traces of her/his pre...
International audienceIn what way does a leader influence an organisation when traces of her/his pre...
International audienceIn what way does a leader influence an organisation when traces of her/his pre...
International audienceIn what way does a leader influence an organisation when traces of her/his pre...
In this article we formally introduce and explicate the organisational heritage notion. The authors ...
Linking the literature on brand management and family firms, this paper explores how family firms ma...
In this article we formally introduce and explicate the organisational heritage notion. The authors ...
Ongoing efforts to redefine and deconstruct the boundaries of archival theory are increasingly empha...