Abstract
Tradition is the topic of intense public attention and scholarly debate, despite lacking elucidations of its constituents in management research. Precisely, tradition effects on firms are presupposed and discussed in absence of theoretical foundations. Based on historic views, we draw on sociological and philosophical research and transfer the theory of tradition to management research. We provide definitions, explanations, and examples to disentangle the components of tradition, traditum and tradere, as two distinct yet related prerequisites for the presence of tradition. We depict that traditum covers five dimensions with sixteen sub-dimensions to unfold. Tradere as the process of traditum transmission encompasses three elements over three generations. We conclude with a discussion of future research avenues and managerial implications based on our conceptualization of tradition.
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