Cunha, Miguel Pina eRego, ArménioClegg, StewartJarvis, Walter P.2021-01-152021-01-152020Cunha, M. P., Rego, A., Clegg, S., Jarvis, W. P. (2020). Stewardship as process: a paradox perspective. European Management Journal0263-2373http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/31673Long-term stewardship is usually represented as a stable structural condition and portrayed as a source of competitive advantage to firms (including family businesses) that use it as a mode of governance. Less is known about how organizations engage with stewardship as a process. We embrace a process approach to report a case study about the unfolding of stewardship in a multi-business family group. We conclude that stewardship is a process marked by critical tensions and paradoxes; by exploring the nature of these we uncover further dimensions and responses to the paradoxes of stewardship.engStewardshipFamily businessProcessParadoxesjournal article10.1016/j.emj.2020.09.006