Stewardship as process: a paradox perspective
Long-term stewardship is usually represented as a stable structural condition and portrayed as a source of competitive advantage to firms (including family businesses) that use it as a mode of governance. Less is known about how organizations engage with stewardship as a process. We embrace a proces...
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Format: | article |
Language: | eng |
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2021
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/31673 |
Country: | Portugal |
Oai: | oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/31673 |
Summary: | Long-term stewardship is usually represented as a stable structural condition and portrayed as a source of competitive advantage to firms (including family businesses) that use it as a mode of governance. Less is known about how organizations engage with stewardship as a process. We embrace a process approach to report a case study about the unfolding of stewardship in a multi-business family group. We conclude that stewardship is a process marked by critical tensions and paradoxes; by exploring the nature of these we uncover further dimensions and responses to the paradoxes of stewardship. |
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