This study aims to develop a contextualized perspective for understanding the variation in the persistence of founders’ ideological imprints across different periods. We argue for the time-varying influence of political circumstances on ideological imprinting to grasp the consequences of multiple different imprints. Employing a multiple-case study research design that relies heavily on archival data, we explored the political contextual sources of variation in political cartoons of Turkish humor magazines from 1972 to 2015. Our findings show that the variation in the persistence of ideological imprints is related to political changes that result in (in)congruence between the founder’s political ideology and the ideology of the governing party, the type of political ideology that the founder represents, and change within the party ideology over time. By revealing how political contexts surrounding imprints lead to persistence, we contribute to imprinting theory and the organizational implications of political ideologies in non-Western contexts.

这项研究旨在建立一个情境化的视角，以理解不同时期创始人的思想烙印的持久性变化。我们主张政治环境对意识形态烙印的时变影响，以把握多种不同烙印的后果。我们采用了高度依赖档案数据的多案例研究设计，我们探索了1972年至2015年土耳其幽默杂志政治漫画变化的政治语境来源。我们的研究结果表明，意识形态烙印的持久性变化与政治变化，导致创始人的政治思想与执政党的思想，创始人所代表的政治思想的类型相一致，并随着时间的推移在党内意识形态上发生变化。通过揭示烙印周围的政治背景如何导致持久性，我们为烙印理论和非西方背景下的政治意识形态的组织意义做出了贡献。