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LIT-1144: Imprinting: Toward a Multilevel Theory

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1373) in full, from the University of Toronto's TSpace copy of the typeset article; worth reading as the review that defines imprinting by a brief sensitive period, the stamp of the environment during it and persistence despite later change, separates it from path dependence and cohort effects, and orders the literature across four levels of analysis. Read it knowing that its extensions, layered imprints from several sensitive periods and secondhand imprinting by emulation, are proposals with little evidence, that the studies it surveys are mostly correlational, and that it asks which features persist in an entity whose identity is fixed, never when a bearer of another's imprint is that entity continuing.
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Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1373 — Marquis and Tilcsik — Imprinting: toward a multilevel theory

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Marquis, C. & Tilcsik, A. (2013). Academy of Management Annals 7(1):195–245.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1373). It separates transmission (secondhand imprinting) from shared resemblance (cohort effects), and does not say when an entity bearing another’s imprint is that entity continuing.

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A6 of the exchange of 2026-10-16: historical transmission as distinct from mere similarity, for CLAIM-329 and QUESTION-118.

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