Daniel Hjorth
Ulf G. Lindén Professor i estetik och företagets kreativitet, Centrumföreståndare, Centrum för estetik och företagets kreativitet (ABC)
The Burden of History in the Family Business Organization
Författare
Summary, in English
In this article we focus on the study of history through the use of narratives, within the context of the prevalent form of organization worldwide: the family business. Specifically we consider the dilemma of the impossible gift of succession using Nietzsche’s discussion of the burden of history and paralleling the story of a family business succession with that of Shakespeare’s King Lear. This way, we seek to make a contribution to organizational studies by answering recent calls to engage more with history in studies of business organizations. By implication, the study also initiates an integration of family business studies into organization studies.
Publiceringsår
2016-08-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1089-1111
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Organization Studies
Volym
37
Avvikelse
8
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Business Administration
Nyckelord
- family business
- history
- narratives
- Nietzsche
- succession
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- Aesthetics and Business Creativity
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0170-8406