Narrative Memory Work of Employees in Family Businesses: How Founding Stories Shape Organizational Identification
研究大型农业家族企业中，创始故事如何通过代际员工的叙事记忆工作转化为集体记忆，并影响员工的组织认同感。
This study is concerned with how founding stories are sustained across multiple generations of employees in family firms and how these stories influence organizational identification. Drawing on a social memory perspective and narrative memory work, we explore the retold founding stories of employees in a large agricultural family firm. Our study demonstrates that founding stories transform firsthand memories into collective memory across multiple generations through intertwining intradiegetic storytelling with material and relational processes. The effortful work of remembering together across familial and social relations, spaces, and embodied ways explains how successive generations understand their belongingness to the organization.