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Inventing a past: Corporate heritage as dialectical relationships of past and present
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Business Administration. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7962-6211
University of Gothenburg.
2019 (English)In: Marketing Theory, ISSN 1470-5931, E-ISSN 1741-301X, Vol. 19, no 2, p. 229-234Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this commentary, we focus on invented corporate heritage, where organizations present falsified accounts of a corporate past. The extant corporate heritage literature has highlighted how the time frames of the past, present and future (omni temporality) are merged in those organizations where there is trait constancy. Focusing on invented corporate heritage, we argue that this represents an extreme case of these dialectics, where present and future precede “the past”, or more appropriately “invented past”. Although lacking in authenticity, an invented corporate heritage may still be attractive to consumers since it can construct an aura of authenticity by delivering an enchanting experience to consumers, irrespective of its substantive genuineness. However, such inventions carry considerable risk since they represent a fabrication of the past.

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Sage Publications, 2019. Vol. 19, no 2, p. 229-234
Keywords [en]
corporate heritage, social memory, authenticity, temporality, corporate identity, organizational identity, myth
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40652DOI: 10.1177/1470593118790625ISI: 000469360300007Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85052536405OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-40652DiVA, id: diva2:1221738
Available from: 2018-06-20 Created: 2018-06-20 Last updated: 2019-06-17Bibliographically approved

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