1st Edition
Crafting Time in Family Firms Legacy, Innovation, and the Logic of Temporal Stewardship
Introduction. Why Time Tensions Matter: A Practical Lens for Family Firms
Chapter 1. Between Past and Future Legacy: Composing the Present
Chapter 2. Between Tradition and Innovation: Craft as Strategy
Chapter 3. Between Belonging and Becoming: Generations as Temporal Architecture
Chapter 4. Between Memory and Market: Weaving the Past into New Value
Chapter 5. Between Private Time and Public Time: Foundations and Outward-Oriented Legacy
Conclusion. Governing through Tensions: A Playbook for Temporal Stewardship
Biography
Silvia Sanasi is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Bergamo. She holds a PhD with honors from Politecnico di Milano (2022), where her dissertation on business model experimentation was shortlisted for the Academy of Management's Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her research sits at the crossroads of strategy and organization theory, exploring innovation, venture scaling, and how organizations navigate uncertainty to shape their future. She publishes in leading international journals, serves on several editorial boards, and is active in the Academy of Management. She has taught and researched at institutions in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, and holds a faculty role at Politecnico di Milano's Graduate School of Management.
Vittoria Magrelli is a senior researcher at the University G. D'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara and former member of the Center for Family Business Management at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She holds a PhD in Management from Lancaster University (2019). Her research centers on intergenerational dynamics, innovation, and resource transfer in entrepreneurial families, with a focus on governance models that balance tradition and change. She publishes in leading journals, and serves on the Editorial Board of Family Business Review. She teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and family business at undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels, and consults with entrepreneurial families on generational transition and long-term sustainability.
