Nadine Kammerlander
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  • Publication
    The Impact of Storytelling on Innovation: a Multi Case Study
    (Academy of Management, 2015-01)
    Kammerlander, Nadine
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    Dessi, Cinzia
    ;
    Bird, Miriam
    ;
    Floris, Michela
    The founder’s values and beliefs are often determinant for family business’ later organizational path and as such affect the organization’s level of innovation. Building on recent research that has identified storytelling as an important means to imprint the founder’s values and beliefs, we apply a multi-case research design to investigate how different foci of those stories affect a family firm’s level of innovation. We suggest that founder-centered stories entail a focus on decisions that match with the founder’s values, hierarchical decision-making, and destructive conflicts, which ultimately lead to low levels of innovation. To the contrary, family-centered stories free family members in their decision-making and entail a collaborative decision-making characterized by low levels of conflicts. As a result, those firms have higher levels of innovation as compared to firms with founder-centered stories. We summarize our findings in a model of path creation in family firms.
    Type: journal article
    Journal: Academy of Management Proceedings
    Issue: 1
    DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2015.66
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/106855
    Scopus© Citations 1
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    The Impact of Shared Stories on Family Firm Innovation : a Multi-Case Study
    (Sage, 2015-09-18)
    Kammerlander, Nadine
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    Dessi, Cinzia
    ;
    Bird, Miriam
    ;
    Floris, Michela
    ;
    Murru, Alessandra
    Innovation is a key determinant of long-term success for family firms. We apply a multiple case study research design to investigate the relationship between stories that are shared among family members across generations and the family firms' innovations. We derive a set of eight propositions suggesting that founder focus is negatively, and family focus is positively associated with innovation. We further propose that these relationships are mediated by the scope of decision-making options, the distribution of decision-making power between generations, and the role of conflict in the families.
    Type: journal article
    Journal: Family Business Review
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 4
    DOI: 10.1177/0894486515607777
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/105921
    Scopus© Citations 172