The enchanted inheritance: traces of the family business founders

Yoshiko Zoet-Suzuki (), Elvin Zoet and Jean-Luc Moriceau ()
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Yoshiko Zoet-Suzuki: LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - Université Paris-Saclay - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], Keio Business School
Elvin Zoet: Keiō Gijuku Daigaku = Keio University [Tokyo]
Jean-Luc Moriceau: IMT-BS - DEFI - Département Data analytics, Économie et Finances - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - Université Paris-Saclay - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]

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Abstract: When we inherit a family business, we inherit much more than the ownership of the business. The legacy is not limited to the responsibility of running the business but also includes the ghostly presence of the person or persons who passed it on, in the form of traces that permeate the present. These traces are not so much imprints that determine possible paths, as the remaining material, immaterial and emotional presence of the past. We use autoethnographic accounts to explore complexities and contradictions experienced as a family business successor. This ghostly presence appears in manifold forms, it calls for respect and working through, and as an additional affective grammar that complements and sometimes thwarts the logic of business.

Date: 2025-06-25
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Published in AEI 2025 : 14ème congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation. "L’entrepreneuriat face aux transitions", Jun 2025, Aix-en-Provence, France

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