Standing the test of time: understanding how long-living family firms make use of the past to preserve organizational identity

Ferri, Priscila; Takahashi, Adriana Roseli Wünsch

doi:10.1080/17449359.2022.2078372

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“…Family firm legacy (e.g., Ferri & Takahashi, 2022; Lundberg & Öberg, 2021) is defined as a “common value system and a set of rules that describe what goals should be achieved,” “the way they can be accomplished and the criteria by which the actions” of organizational members “can be evaluated” (Keplinger et al, 2016, p. 323). Studies conceptualize family firm legacy as a reflection of the family legacy, both referring to “the enduring meaning that has been attached to the family or firm and extends beyond the time horizon that comes as one particular generation leads the family, manages the family firm, or owns the family firm” (Holt et al, 2017, p. 193).…”

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Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Radu-Lefebvre,

Davis,

Gartner

2024

Family Business Review

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This article maps and integrates research on legacy in family business using a sample of 140 articles. After describing the process of arriving at a corpus of legacy articles, we propose a systematic literature review that summarizes current literature based on five overarching questions: (a) What is legacy? (b) Who sends and receives legacy? (c) Why is legacy sent and accepted/rejected? (d) How is legacy sent and received? and (e) In which contexts? Based on this review, we identify gaps in the literature and suggest theoretical perspectives and research questions to guide future research on legacy in family business.

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Section: What Is Legacy?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Radu-Lefebvre,

Davis,

Gartner

2024

Family Business Review

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“…founding/origin history) perspectives and experiences. Sometimes, such information can be omitted, suppressed or de-emphasized to craft a preferred narrative about the organization and its products (Ferri and Takahashi, 2022;Suddaby et al, 2023aSuddaby et al, , 2023b. In both cases, by leveraging nostalgia as a resource, organizational executives can infuse it into their rhetorical history by communicating narratives that awake memories or experiences that are either shared collectively or treasured individually.…”

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“…Importantly, we contribute to a limited number of historic studies focused on understanding the impact of founders on an organization’s brand (Basque and Langley, 2018; Ferri and Takahashi, 2022). Specifically, we examine how a subsequent ownership group shifted the emphasis on the founder to change identity by using national or regional histories as a resource (Miranda and Ruiz-Moreno, 2022).…”

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Forms of nostalgia in the rhetorical history of Jack Daniel’s

Seifried,

Novicevic,

Poor

2023

JMH

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Purpose This study aims to use a theoretical-based case study of two distinct ownership groups of the Jack Daniel’s brand to explore how rhetorical history (i.e. malleability of the past for strategic goals) may evoke and capitalize on different forms of nostalgia. Within, the authors configure four forms of nostalgia (i.e. personal, historical, collective and cultural) from the individual or collective interaction and level of direct experience one has with the past as lived or happened. Design/methodology/approach This study uses an historical research approach which involved the identification of primary and secondary sources, facility tour, source criticism and triangulation to create themes of rhetorical history infused with nostalgic narratives using compelling evidence through rich description of this fusion. Findings The findings reveal how nostalgia-driven narratives reflecting different collective longing for the re-creation of an American Paradise Lost used by Jack Daniel (i.e. the man) and later but differently by Brown-Forman. This study uncovers how the company’s inherited past was used rhetorically throughout its history, beginning with the nostalgic story of Jack Daniel and the distillery’s nostalgically choreographed location in Lynchburg, Tennessee. This study delves into this setting to highlight the importance of symbols, details, emotional appeals and communications for collective memory and identity development and to showcase the ways in which they are influenced by different types and forms of nostalgia. Originality/value This study adds to a limited number of studies focused on understanding the impact of founders on an organization’s brand and how that is malleable. This study responds to scholarly calls to study the influence of sequenced historical rhetoric on an organization and highlight the relevance of social emotions such as nostalgia for rhetorical history. Finally, the theoretical contribution involves the advancing and construction of a theory typology of nostalgia previously proposed by Havlena and Holak in 1996.

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“…However, when faced with changes in their internal or external environments, organizations often struggle to align their strategies (what they do or plan to do) with their identities (who they think they are) (Bojovic et al, 2020;Gioia et al, 2000;Schultz & Hernes, 2020). Organizational identity-the central, enduring, and distinctive characteristics of an organization that define "who we are as an organization" (Albert & Whetten, 1985)-tends to be grounded in an organization's past (Ferri & Takahashi, 2022;Sillince & Simpson, 2010). On the contrary, an organization's strategy is oriented toward the future (Ravasi et al, 2020;Sillince & Simpson, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%