Stewardship as process: a paradox perspective

Miguel Pina e Cunha; Arménio Rego; Stewart Clegg; Walter P. Jarvis

doi:10.1016/j.emj.2020.09.006

Stewardship as process: a paradox perspective

Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego, Stewart Clegg, Walter P. Jarvis^*

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Long-term stewardship is usually represented as a stable structural condition and portrayed as a source of competitive advantage to firms (including family businesses) that use it as a mode of governance. Less is known about how organizations engage with stewardship as a process. We embrace a process approach to report a case study about the unfolding of stewardship in a multi-business family group. We conclude that stewardship is a process marked by critical tensions and paradoxes; by exploring the nature of these we uncover further dimensions and responses to the paradoxes of stewardship.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	247-259
Number of pages	13
Journal	European Management Journal
Volume	39
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2020.09.006
Publication status	Published - Apr 2021

Keywords

Family business
Paradoxes
Process
Stewardship

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