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The Impact of Storytelling on Innovation: a Multi Case Study

Journal
Academy of Management Proceedings
ISSN
0065-0668
ISSN-Digital
2151-6561
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2015-01
Author(s)
Kammerlander, Nadine  
Dessi, Cinzia
Bird, Miriam  
Floris, Michela
DOI
10.5465/AMBPP.2015.66
Abstract
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.
Funding(s)
Innovative firm behavior - understanding the role of family influence  
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Academy of Management
Publisher place
Briarcliff Manor, NY
Number
1
Start page
1
End page
6
Pages
6
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/106855
Subject(s)

business studies

Division(s)

KMU - Swiss Research ...

Eprints ID
240093

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