Innan Sasaki

TL;DR: This paper reveals a variety of strategies that managers can use to deal with the tension between promoting change and maintaining a sense of continuity with a distant, revered past, and helps managers confronting these issuesdeal with the enabling and constraining effects of the past.

TL;DR: This paper proposed a new perspective that takes intra-national regional culture as the unit of analysis, combining this perspective with acculturation theory and the concepts of cultural strength and embeddedness, and developed a conceptual model to analyze dynamic interaction between intranational regional cultures and organizational cultures and propositions on how such interactions affect firm performance.

TL;DR: The authors investigated how multi-centenary family firms in the area of Kyoto collectively known as shinise maintain a high social status in the community and revealed 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the historical acculturation between organisational and local cultures of Japanese Shinise firms and find that the essence of both Shinise firm's corporate culture and local culture have remained unchanged over the existence of these firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the antecedents of employee and manager commitment, using internal marketing practices, in elderly care homes in Finland, were investigated using survey data drawn from elderly care home in Finland.