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Managing Legacy and Change : New Frontiers for Theory and Practice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foroughi, Hamid.
- Series:
- De Gruyter Studies in Organizational and Management History Series
- De Gruyter Studies in Organizational and Management History Series ; v.2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational change.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.
- Summary:
- The book provides insights on managing legacy and change in organizations from some of the pioneering researchers in the field.It explores how past legacies both enable and restrict opportunities for organizational renewal, social change, and new forms of organizing.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- About the authors
- Preface
- References
- Chapter 1 Perspectives on organizational legacy and change
- Legacy and its multiple facets in organizations
- Legacy as imprints from the past
- Legacy as traditions/heritage
- Legacy as rhetorical history
- Legacy as collective memory
- Conclusion
- Part I: Legacy transmission between memory and identity
- Chapter 2 Distilling memories-a redefinition of organizational identity
- From past to future: The role of memory and identity
- Linking past to memory: A review
- Linking memory to identity: A redefinition
- Linking identity to strategy: A mnemonic twist
- Memory and identity work: Putting the old wine back
- Why study identity?
- The filtration of memory
- Identity, image, and strategy: Connective tissue
- A mnemonic theory of organizations?
- Chapter 3 Inheritance as an organizational purpose
- Inheritance
- Similar concepts
- The historical origins of inheritance as organizational purpose
- The role of historical conflation in inheritance
- Inheritance and the conflation of assets
- Inheritance and the conflation of values
- Inheritance and the conflation of power
- Chapter 4 Constructing legacy: Managing legacy in discursive and embodied ways
- The conceptualization of legacy
- Legacy as constitutive of mnemonic communities
- The transmission of legacy through time
- The management of legacy
- Managing discursive transmission
- Managing embodied transmission
- Monitoring cultural alignment
- Part II: Organizational legacy in the broader ecology
- Chapter 5 Embedded legacy and the role of entrepreneurial family firms in business ecosystems: The Aspiag case
- Legacies within business ecosystems.
- An embedded case study of Aspiag and its affiliates
- Research setting
- Methodological approach
- Findings
- Legacies in a territory
- Roles of legacies in a business ecosystem
- Relationships dynamics in a business ecosystem
- Discussion and contributions
- Chapter 6 Acquiring history? Foreign imprint management during postmerger integration
- Theoretical background
- Methodology
- Discussion
- Chapter 7 Legacy and collective action: Learning from faith-based communities and parishes
- Introduction
- Legacy as an expression in use
- Religious organization in the everyday
- Theoretical and methodological challenges in studying the history of ordinary everyday organizations and their collective memories
- Parishes and popular Catholicism
- The empirical setting and its questions
- Faith, coffee, cake, and action in M'Boi Mirim and Vila Remo
- Discussion and conclusions
- Part III: The role of legacy in organizational change and imagined futures
- Chapter 8 The power of the mundane: Small stories as ambivalent carriers of legacy
- Organizational history, legacy, and narrative
- 'Seeing' small stories: A methodological note
- Founders, small stories, narratives, and legacy: A proposal
- Narratives
- A communication-centered perspective
- Small stories and their characteristics
- Small Stories in Action
- Vignette 1: Collett E. Woolman and Delta Airlines
- Vignette 2: Edmund McIlhenny and the McIlhenny Company
- Vignette 3: Alphonse Desjardins and the Desjardins Group
- Discussion: Reflecting on the power of small stories
- The power of small stories as carriers of legacy
- The ambivalence of small stories
- The fragility of small stories
- Chapter 9 Rhetorical history as history: Legacies of a rhetorical history strategy.
- Rhetorical history
- Barclays' rhetorical history strategies
- 2008, Payment Protection Insurance, London Interbank Offered Rate, and the Transform Programme
- Using the past to build a new corporate culture
- The end of the Transform Programme
- The legacies of a rhetorical history strategy
- Chapter 10 Obstacles to change in racialized organizations: Imprinting, memory, and legacy
- Racialized organizations
- Legacies of imprinting in racialized organizations
- Legacies of memory practices in racialized organizations
- Race and policing in the United States
- The Fraternal Order of Police
- Sources on the FOP
- The racialized identity of the FOP
- Imprinting in the 1910s
- Memory in the 1970s
- Memory in the 21st century
- Racialized schema in the FOP
- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Legacy-New frontier in research and practice
- Legacy: Toward a multidisciplinary perspective
- Factors influencing legacy and its relationship to organizational identity and change
- Legacy and organizational identity
- Legacy and organizational change
- Implications and opportunities for theory and research
- Implications and opportunities for practice
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-163146-X
- OCLC:
- 1531950102
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