In a world where the new often collides with the old, Tradition as Resource or Constraint for Strategic Action examines the dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation. Spanning industries from fashion to sports and from gastronomy to design, the researchers present a meticulously curated anthology of research discussing the dual role of traditionas both a stabilizing anchor, and a springboard for strategic change.
Volume 44 provides insight into the challenges businesses face when trying to innovate without compromising their historical values, emphasizing the importance of balancing the old and the new. Traditional practices can be reimagined to satisfy contemporary needs, ensuring the essence of the past is preserved, whilst still keeping up with the spirit of innovation.
By focusing on this intersection between tradition and invention, this compilation not only marks a resurgence of interest in the interplay between traditional mores and strategic innovation but also serves as crucial reading for strategists and leaders. It equips them with the insights needed to balance a reverence for historical legacies with the imperatives of forward-thinking innovationcharting a course for a future that both honours and renews the past.
Introduction
Balancing Act: Leveraging Tradition in the Pursuit of Innovation; Gino
Cattani, Simone Ferriani, and Innan Sasaki
Tradition as heterogeneous perception
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1. Organizational Constraint or Source of Competitive Advantage (or
Both)? The Strategic Use of Authenticity by way of Tradition; Oliver Hahl and
J. Cameron Verhaal
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2. Navigating the Tension Between Tradition and Innovation in
Cultural and Creative Industries: A Critical Literature Review and Research
Agenda; Giulia Cancellieri
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3. Rogue Wine: A Non-Starred Wines Story. The Troubled Adoption of
the Novel IGT Category in the Italian Wine Industry; Andrea Lanza and
Giuseppina Simone
Tradition as contextualized evolution
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4. Tradition with a Global Appetite: The Michelin Guides Entry and
Evolution in New York City; Daniel B. Sands
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5. When Tradition and Innovation Collide: The Case of Formula 1 World
Championship; Carmelo Mazza, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, and Gianluigi Mazza
Tradition as everyday practice
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6. Tradition as Practice: Reshaping of Japanese Bartending; Nao Sato
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7. Learn the Rules Like a Pro, So You Can Break Them Like an Artist:
How Michelin-Starred Chefs Create a New Robust Tradition; Simone Ferriani,
Gianvito Lanzolla, and Gianni Lorenzoni
Tradition as process
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8. Exploring the three forms of family business as tradition:
Received, enacted, and to be transmitted; Rocky Adiguna
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9. Institutional Leadership as Discursive Practice; Vitaliano A.
Barberio and Alessandro Lomi
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10. Approaches to studying tradition; Ann Langley
Breaking with tradition
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11. Breaking with Tradition: Insights from the Literature on
Disruptive Innovation; Constantinos C. Markides
Gino Cattani is Professor of Management and Organizations at the New York University, USA, and Series Editor for the Advances in Strategic Management series.
Simone Ferriani is Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Bayes Business School at the City University of London, UK, a lifetime member of Clare-Hall College at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Visiting Fellow of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University, USA.
Innan Sasaki is Professor of Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School, UK.
