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TY - JOUR
T1 - Family firms as institutions
T2 - Cultural reproduction and status maintenance among multi-centenary shinise in Kyoto
AU - Sasaki, Innan
AU - Ravasi, Davide
AU - Micelotta, Evelyn
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Organization Studies, 40 (6), 2019, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Organization Studies page: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/OSS on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - Our study investigated how multi-centenary family firms in the area of Kyoto – collectively known as shinise – maintain a high social status in the community. Our analysis unpacks the socio-cultural practices through which the ongoing interaction among these actors re-enacts and reproduces the social order that ascribes shinise a distinct social standing in exchange for their continued commitment to practices and structures that help the community preserve its cultural integrity and collective identity. By doing so, our findings trace a connection between status maintenance and the expressive function that a category of firms performs within a community. At the same time, our study reveals a dark side of high status, by showing how their commitments lock shinise in a position of ‘benign entrapment’ that may impose sacrifices on family members and severe limitations to their personal freedom.
AB - Our study investigated how multi-centenary family firms in the area of Kyoto – collectively known as shinise – maintain a high social status in the community. Our analysis unpacks the socio-cultural practices through which the ongoing interaction among these actors re-enacts and reproduces the social order that ascribes shinise a distinct social standing in exchange for their continued commitment to practices and structures that help the community preserve its cultural integrity and collective identity. By doing so, our findings trace a connection between status maintenance and the expressive function that a category of firms performs within a community. At the same time, our study reveals a dark side of high status, by showing how their commitments lock shinise in a position of ‘benign entrapment’ that may impose sacrifices on family members and severe limitations to their personal freedom.
KW - craft
KW - culture
KW - institutional theory
KW - status
KW - Selznick
U2 - 10.1177/0170840618818596
DO - 10.1177/0170840618818596
M3 - Journal article
VL - 40
SP - 793
EP - 831
JO - Organization Studies
JF - Organization Studies
SN - 0170-8406
IS - 6
ER -