Leaving a Legacy: Position Imprints and Successor Turnover in Young Firms

By M. Burton, Christine M. Beckman, Diane Burton, L. Bailyn, Roberto Fernández, Mauro F. Guillén, Thomas Kochan, Paul Osterman, Edgar D. Roberts, E. Romanelli and 4 more. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Team Microdynamics: Toward an Organizing Approach to Teamwork (2014, background): “…perspective that teams are not necessarily mechanistic in design—teams may self-select members (Harrison & Humphrey, 2010), self-design role responsibilities (Burton & Beckman, 2007), self-regulate member behavior (Barker, 1993), and/or self-set goals and direction (Morgeson, DeRue, & Karam, 2010).”
Founding conditions and the survival of new firms (2009, background): “Burton and Beckman (2007) found that when the first holder of a new functional position in a firm has an atypical working experience, the subsequent holders of these positions experience shorter tenures than would otherwise be expected.”
Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms (2015, background): “It looks at how institutions influence how new firms get started (Hiatt, Sine, and Tolbert, 2009; Sine and Lee, 2009) and are organized (Burton and Beckman, 2007; Powell and Sandholtz, 2012).”
International Entrepreneurship and Capability Development—Qualitative Evidence and Future Research Directions (2011, result): “Second, our findings on the negative impact of shared experience strongly support the notion of founder imprints (e.g., Burton & Beckman, 2007).”
ENTREPRENEURIAL INCEPTION: THE ROLE OF IMPRINTING IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION (SUMMARY) (2013, background): “…including network analysis (McEvily et al., 2012), top management teams (Beckman and Burton, 2008), career research (Azoulay et al., 2011; Higgins, 2005), institutional theory (Johnson, 2007), organizational turnover (Burton and Beckman, 2007), and organizational ecology (Carroll and Hannan, 1989).”
Imprint–environment Fit and Performance (2014, background): “Recent research on imprinting has moved beyond the organizational level, exploring the persistent influence of initial conditions at the level of interfirm networks (Marquis, 2003), functional positions within organizations (Burton and Beckman, 2007), and individuals (Higgins, 2006).”
Studying Choice and Change: The Intersection of Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship Research (2011, background): “Questions of where such differences come from, and whether they can be maintained over time, are addressed in part by later work based on an expansion of the original data set by Burton and her colleagues (Burton et al. 2002, Burton and Beckman 2007, Beckman and Burton 2008).”
Acquisitions As Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry (2010, background): “…other researchers have similarly highlighted how idiosyncratic interfirm conventions such as information channels, leadership conventions, and role types, which become established early in organizations, led to institutional persistence (Beckman & Burton, 2008; Burton & Beckman, 2007; David, 1994).”
The Effects of Business Failure Experience on Successive Entrepreneurial Engagements: An Evolutionary Phase Model (2018, background): “…to shape character of newly founded firm (Beckman, 2006): to the extent that the strategic decisions and directions of the newly founded firm may take on a character that is reflective of the pre-entry experiences of the entrepreneur (Bryant, 2014; Burton & Beckman, 2007; Kriauciunas & Kale, 2006).”
“What’s Past Is Prologue” (2015, background): “…of how organizations internalize imprinted traits during sensitive periods through the development of rules, roles, structures, and identities (Burton & Beckman, 2007; Gioia et al., 2010; Jones, 2001; Kim, Bae, & Yu, 2013); recombination and orientation to new institutional and cultural…”
Founding Teams as Carriers of Competing Logics (2014, background): “…the particular form of risk studied here, and because, as research on founders’ imprints on new organizations would suggest (Stinchcombe, 1965; Burton and Beckman, 2007; Johnson, 2007; Marquis and Tilcsik, 2013), institutional influences on founders could potentially have an important impact…”
5 Turnover and Retention Research: A Glance at the Past, a Closer Review of the Present, and a Venture into the Future (2008, background): “Finally, a unique perspective on the contextual influences on turnover was provided by Burton and Beckman ( 2007 ) who found that position imprinting (eg, the experiences of position creators) and external pressures (eg, normative expectations regarding typical experiences for the position) predicte”
Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy (2014, unknown): “Other researchers have examined how the social context of founders shapes venture design (Baron et al. 1999; Burton and Beckman 2007; Dahl and Sorenson 2012; Sørensen 2007; Sørensen and Fassioto 2011).”