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Servitization through open service innovation in family firms: Exploring the ability-willingness paradox
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The evolution of craft work in the strategic development of a family enterprise
Full text linkCraft firms characterized by a humanistic approach to work face a tension between adhering to pure craft principles and embracing industrialization. This challenge is heightened in family-controlled craft firms, striving to uphold tradition while adapting to change. This study examines how craft work evolves along the trajectory of entrepreneurial development through a case study of Thun, a third-generation family craft firm. We identify a set of mechanisms and four configurations—pure, technical, narrative, and ecosystemic—through which craft work evolves over time. These configurations not only preserve traditions, but also infuse them with entrepreneurial spirit, reinterpretation, and deep innovation. This study contributes to the craft work literature by moving beyond static perspectives and revealing the dynamic interplay between different craft configurations
The role of temporal orientations and intergenerational tensions in multigenerational family firms
No full textIntergenerational tensions play a crucial role in driving the transition from senior to junior generation in family
firms; however, little attention has been devoted to understanding how different generations interact with each
other and cope with these tensions at work. Through an ethnographic case study of a consultancy firm of family
firms, we explore intergenerational tensions and uncover an intermediation process intended to drive generations toward each other’s temporal orientation. Our investigation offers theoretical depth and specification to
this line of inquiry by revealing why the layering of structural, cultural, and emotional factors makes generational transitions in family firms complex and difficult to plan. Moving beyond the linear time of the lifecycle
approach used by mainstream family business research, our theoretical insights provide a novel framework
grounded in organization studies on boundary work and in sociological studies on generations to understand
the positive role of intergenerational tensions in family firms
DISPOSITIVO OTTICO PER IL CONTROLLO DI PRESENZA, VELOCITà DI ROTAZIONE E DIMENSIONE DI UN FILO IN UNA MACCHINA DI FILATURA AD ANELLO E RELATIVO SISTEMA DI FILATURA AD ANELLO
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Generational brokerage: An intersubjective perspective on managing temporal orientations in family firm succession
Full text linkInteractions between family members of different generations often unleash powerful tensions in family firms. Intergenerational tensions can be particularly prominent during intra-family succession as a result of the different temporal orientations of senior and junior generation family members. However, scant systematic attention has thus far been paid to understanding the temporality of intergenerational tensions in family firms. Through an embedded case study, we explore the mediation process that helps family firms manage intergenerational tensions by way of temporal work. Our investigation of an advisory firm and its clients led us to identify generational brokerage as the intersubjective process through which temporal work enables generations toward the joint understanding of temporal orientations. Our theoretical insights have significant implications for developing a temporal view of succession and add novel important knowledge to research on mediation and time. Indeed, we show that generational brokerage is a dialectic construct with organizing properties able to blend disparate research streams by going beyond a unidirectional forward-flowing logic of time in examining organizational processes
Innovation in Small Family Firms
Full text linkResearch on innovation in family firms has flourished in the last decades. Nevertheless, most of the current understanding has been developed by studying large organizations, leaving the specific challenges and opportunities of innovating in small family firms still untapped. This introductory article summarizes the studies included in the special issue and integrates their contributions by uncovering four types of innovation that allow small family firms to overcome the liability of smallness. Finally, we suggest directions for future research
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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