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Sasaki, Innan and Ravasi, Davide (2024) Historical consciousness and bounded imagination : how history inspires and constrains innovation in long-lived firms. Academy of Management Discoveries, 10 (1). pp. 59-90. doi:10.5465/amd.2021.0184 ISSN 2168-1007.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2021.0184
Abstract
Unexpected observations from a study of ultra-centenary Japanese firms suggest that organizational longevity might affect how managers relate to past, present, and future, and how they approach change and innovation. To account for these observations, we borrow the notion of historical consciousness, originally developed at the intersection of philosophy and historiography to indicate the continued salience of history in the present. Our findings suggest how historical consciousness might induce an approach to change – which we refer to as bounded imagination – that is simultaneously conservative and creative. These revelatory insights contribute to our understanding of how history and tradition can be mobilized as resources for action. They invite us, more generally, to expand our conceptualization of history in organizations – not only as a set of objective conditions and events (as in theories of imprinting and path dependence) or a discursive representation of the past (as in rhetorical history) but as subjective experience and interpretive frame shaping action in the present.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Family-owned business enterprises -- Management, Creative ability in business, Social responsibility of business, Historiography -- Social aspects, Organizational learning, Longevity -- Econometric models, Management, Strategic planning | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Academy of Management Discoveries | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 2168-1007 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2024 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 10 | ||||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 59-90 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.5465/amd.2021.0184 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Re-use Statement: | Sasaki, Innan and Ravasi, Davide (2023) Historical consciousness and bounded imagination : how history inspires and constrains innovation in long-lived firms. Academy of Management Discoveries . doi:10.5465/amd.2021.0184 ISSN 2168-1007. (In Press) | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 July 2023 |
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