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Bart Clarysse (visiting)

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Chair in Entrepreneurship
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9850b.clarysse

 
 
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389Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{De:2020:10.1287/orsc.2020.1372,
author = {De, Cuyper L and Clarysse, B and Phillips, N},
doi = {10.1287/orsc.2020.1372},
journal = {Organization Science},
pages = {1579--1600},
title = {Imprinting beyond the founding phase: how sedimented imprints develop over time},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1372},
volume = {33},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - In this study, we go back to some of the fundamental ideas of Selznick and Stinchcombe about how organizations bear a lasting imprint of their founding context, and about how characteristics shaped during founding are coherently carried forward. To do so, we draw on an ethnography of a social venture where the entrepreneurs left soon after founding. In examining how an initial organizational imprint evolves beyond a venture’s founding phase, we focus on the actions and interactions of organizational members, the founders’ imprint, the venture’s new leadership and the external environment. The process model we develop shows how the organizational imprint evolves as a consequence of the interplay between top-down and bottom-up forces. We first find that the initial imprint is transmitted through a bottom-up mechanism of imprint reinforcement, and second, that the venture is re-imprinted after the founding period through two processes which we call imprint reforming and imprint coupling. The result of this is the formation of a sedimented imprint. Our findings further illuminate that although the initial imprint sticks, its function and manifestation changes over time.
AU  - De,Cuyper L
AU  - Clarysse,B
AU  - Phillips,N
DO  - 10.1287/orsc.2020.1372
EP  - 1600
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1047-7039
SP  - 1579
TI  - Imprinting beyond the founding phase: how sedimented imprints develop over time
T2  - Organization Science
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1372
UR  - https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2020.1372
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/76827
VL  - 33
ER  -
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