%0 Journal Article
%T Family Firms as Institutions: Cultural reproduction and status maintenance among multi
%A Davide Ravasi
%A Evelyn Micelotta
%A Innan Sasaki
%J Organization Studies
%@ 1741-3044
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0170840618818596
%X Our study investigated how multi-centenary family firms in the area of Kyoto ¨C collectively known as shinise ¨C maintain a high social status in the community. Our analysis unpacks the socio-cultural practices through which the ongoing interaction among these actors re-enacts and reproduces the social order that ascribes shinise a distinct social standing in exchange for their continued commitment to practices and structures that help the community preserve its cultural integrity and collective identity. By doing so, our findings trace a connection between status maintenance and the expressive function that a category of firms performs within a community. At the same time, our study reveals 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
%K craft
%K culture
%K institutional theory
%K status
%K Selznick
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0170840618818596