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Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Spirit of Japanese Capitalism

Innan Sasaki et al.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice2026https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587251393963article
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Abstract

While cultural entrepreneurship research has highlighted how entrepreneurs craft stories to legitimize their ventures, we know much less about how entrepreneurs gain legitimacy for a novel organizational form. Drawing upon a detailed, historical examination of Japanese family mottos from the Edo period (1603–1868), we show how stories embedded in family mottos enabled legitimation by symbolically leveraging two core socio-cultural institutions of Edo Japan (religion and family), advancing our understanding of how broader cultural resources can be leveraged to legitimate a new organizational form. We discuss implications for scholarship on family business and cultural entrepreneurship.

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@article{innan2026,
  title        = {{Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Spirit of Japanese Capitalism}},
  author       = {Innan Sasaki et al.},
  journal      = {Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587251393963},
}

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