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Managing Legacy and Change : New Frontiers for Theory and Practice.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Foroughi, Hamid.
Contributor:
Foroughi
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.
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ISBN:
3-11-163146-X
OCLC:
1531950102

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