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2014, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-11-2013-0069…
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Purpose: This editorial aims to investigate the interface between gendered processes and family business by exploring the extent to which gendered processes are reinforced (or not) in family business operations and dynamics. This approach will complement the agency and RBV theoretical bases that dominate family business research (Chrisman et al., 2009), and further contribute to extending gender theories. Design/methodology/approach: Acknowledging that gender is socially constructed, this editorial discusses the interface between gendered processes and family business within entrepreneurship research. Findings: Despite a growing interest in gender and family business, there is a limited literature that explores gender theory within family business research. A gender theory approach embracing family business research contributes to a needed theoretical deconstruction of existing perspectives on the operations, sustainability and succession of family businesses in the 21st century. Originality/value: This article makes a contribution to extant scholarship by extending gender theories through an exploration of the gendered processes in family business research.
História Econômica & História de Empresas
This study contributes to developing our understanding of gender and family business. It draws on studies from the business history and management literatures and provides an interdisciplinary synthesis. It illuminates the role of women and their participation in the entrepreneurial practices of the family and the business. Leadership is introduced as a concept to examine the roles of women and men in family firms, arguing that concepts used by historians or economists like ownership and management have served to make women ‘invisible’, at least in western developed economies in which owners and managers have been historically due to legal rules of the game men, and minoritarily women. Finally, it explores gender relations and the notion that leadership in family business may take complex forms crafte within constantly changing relationships.
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2022
Family firms have a prominent role across countries and industries and are the main organizational form for most ventures worldwide. Family firms are organizations characterized by intertwining of the family and business systems, which gives a special flavor to how decision-makers act and react and to how strategic decisions are taken. In fact, economic and non-economic objectives co-exist in such types of organization, where the family is attached to the stock of affect-related value-also labeled as socioemotional wealth (Gómez-Mejía et al., 2007)-that has been invested in the firm. The tendency to preserve family control and influence, family identification with the firm, and emotional attachment, and the desire to transfer the business to the next generation, are characteristics that make family firms different from other organizational forms. Moreover, those features can vary depending on contexts (Welter, 2011) and cultures (Hofstede et al., 2001). There is indeed a great heterogeneity among family firms due to different degrees of family involvement in ownership and management, business and family governance, organizational size and international scope (ranging from small ventures to multinational enterprises), and industries. Several themes have been investigated within the family business research field, such as leadership succession, business and family governance, innovation, internationalization, role of siblings, corporate entrepreneurship, and the role of women as mothers, daughters, and sisters (Martinez Jimenez, 2009). With specific reference to the role of women in family business, research has suggested that this context gives a special flavor to the legitimation process of women's leadership (Calabrò et al., 2022). The role of women belonging to a family business is different than that in other types of organizations: on the one side they are legitimized as being part of the business as they belong to the owning family (Campopiano et al., 2017), and on the other they might be exposed to challenges, when entering the corporate world, such as entry barriers, the glass ceiling, and stereotypes (Chadwick &
Women Entrepreneurship in Family Business, 2017
Despite several calls for more systematic research on the role of gender aspects for entrepreneurial family businesses, rather little research on such topics has been published in the leading family business journals. More research has been published in niched or lower-ranked journals as well as books. The aim of this chapter is to provide a systematic literature review of the intersection between gender and family business research published in different kinds of outlets, outlining the status quo of the discussion along different themes as well as a research agenda to help move the field forward.
Purpose -The role of women entrepreneurs in family businesses is becoming increasingly important, a fact that is reflected in the scientific literature. The purpose of this study is to identify the key research areas that address this issue. To this end, a bibliometric analysis has been carried out to obtain a perspective of the current situation in this field of research and to identify the key areas of research in recent years. Design/methodology/approach -In this study, the analysis is performed using a literature review and bibliometric analysis techniques. The bibliographic source supporting this analysis resulted from a Scopus search of the terms gender, entrepreneurship and family business. VOSviewer was used to facilitate the analysis. Findings -This bibliometric analysis studies the evolutionary trend of publications on gender, entrepreneurship and family business and identifies current research trends. It also identifies authors, journals and countries with the highest impact levels to enhance collaboration and learning. Research limitations/implications -It would be advisable to conduct further research with a broader bibliographic base and with other search criteria covering other aspects related to the role of women entrepreneurs in family businesses. This work can serve as a valuable source of information for future research in this field and to assist in the development of effective equality policies to address existing social stereotypes. Originality/value -This research illustrates, using VOSviewer, the current growth of studies in the field of women entrepreneurship in family businesses.
This study contributes to developing our understanding of gender and family business, a topic so crucial to recent policies about competitive growth. It does so by providing an interdisciplinary synthesis of some major theoretical debates. It also contributes to this understanding by illuminating the role of women and their participation in the practices of the family and the business. Finally, it explores gender relations and the notion that leadership in family business may take complex forms crafted within constantly changing relationships. Leadership is introduced as a concept that captures the reality of women and men in family firms in a better way than other concepts used by historians or economists like ownership and management.
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the contribution of “Matriarchy” to the entrepreneurship and family business literature. The literature on gendered aspects of entrepreneurship is expanding and maturing in its level of theoretical sophistication and subject coverage. At the same time, our nuanced understanding of how gender influences entrepreneurial action also expands, as does our appreciation of how men and women do entrepreneurship. It is widely acknowledged that although the theories of entrepreneurship and small business are cognate literature, entrepreneurship has primacy. The heroic male entrepreneur is the master narrative against which we measure other forms of entrepreneurship. The role played by wives, partners, family and employees is often left unstated. In our eternal quest to theorise and explain entrepreneurial action in its entirety, we seldom consider the explanatory power of the sociological theory of “Matriarchy”. Consequentially, in this theoret...
2009
The role of women in family businesses is explored in the paper. Although recognised as generally very important players, the role of women is oft en defined as invisible in business decision-making, supportive in men’s traditional business domains and only rarely adequately recognised and rewarded. The paper explores possible differences in the views of men and women who manage small family firms. Their attitudes opposing the traditional business roles of women, different views on managerial, ownership and transition issues and possible gender discrimination are examined. The findings support the paradigm of a different, more feminine style of management, while signs of discrimination are not clearly revealed.
Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, 2021
PurposeThe current review aims to examine the growth trajectory, most influential documents, intellectual and conceptual structure of the literature regarding gender issues in family business research.Design/methodology/approachThe bibliometric analysis was performed using 224 documents from 1991 to 2020 extracted from the Web of Science database.FindingsThe review finds that this field's knowledge grew exponentially during the last three decades, mainly after 2003 and the last several years. Based on the co-citation analysis, three major research lines are identified: “Women's challenges and opportunities in the family business”, “Gender diversity in the family business corporate board”, and “Gender and family SMEs management.” The temporal co-word analysis reveals that “Gender diversity in the family business corporate board” is the latest research line.Originality/valueBy reviewing prominent cited references and documents that cited them, the authors provide the landscape...
This paper investigates the succession process as perceived and lived by daughters taking over the family business, with a gender perspective. Despite the rich literature on the succession process in family firms, few studies use a gender approach, though an increasing number of ventures are launched, taken over and managed by women, largely contributing to the economic development. In line with Dumas (1998), and Vera & Dean (2005), our research aims at analyzing the succession process when daughters take over the family business. Our contribution is a gender analysis of the process, including the social phenomena of separation and hierarchy, with a focus on family composition. Using the model of Cadieux et al. , we identify at each stage of the succession process, the key actors of the environment, we analyze their interactions and see how they open opportunities or rise difficulties in terms of legitimacy for daughters. The qualitative thematic analysis of eleven detailed case studies reveals a strong influence of the presence or absence of a son on the motivations and positioning of daughters, as well as on the construction of their legitimacy towards family and stakeholders. This study leads to several implications for public and private initiatives.
2011
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLOŃSKI, KRAKÓW W XIII wieku, zwłaszcza dzięki zyskom z IV wyprawy krzyżowej, Wenecja wyrasta na światową potęgę i w przeciągu dwóch następnych stuleci, niezależnie nawet od strasznej epidemii dżumy w 1348-1349 roku, niewielkie Dogado dochodzi do szczytu swej potęgi, jako Stato da Tera (Domini di Terraferma) zajmując ogromne terytoria na północy Półwyspu -niemal do bram Mediolanu i po Rawennę, a jako Stato da Màr panując w całym basenie Morza Śródziemnego, nad wyspami egejskimi i jońskimi, nad Cyprem, Kretą i Korfu, nad Dalmacją i Istrią (Adriatyk już w XIV wieku nazywano Zatoką Wenecką!). Pod zarządem Republiki znajdowały się liczne ziemie słowiańskie, albańskie i greckie, a miasto przyciągało zewsząd ludzi interesu i sztuki. Od 1373 roku osiedlają się w Wenecji Żydzi -niemieccy, włoscy i hiszpańscy, to tu rozwinie się intensywnie drukarstwo hebrajskie i tu, na wyspie św. Hieronima, powstanie pierwsze na świecie izolujące ich ghetto (1516). W mieście od XII wieku istnieje aktywna kolonia ormiańska, która tu właśnie wydała pierwszą drukowaną książkę w swym języku (1512). Także liczna była przynajmniej od drugiej połowy XV wieku kolonia albańska, wnosząc swój wkład do kultury tego wyjątkowego miasta. Dla Greków Wenecja, nazwana nawet "drugim Bizancjum" (określenie kardynała Bessariona), od zawsze stanowiła ulubioną przystań, i tymczasową, i stałą, zwłaszcza po ostatecznym upadku Wschodniego Imperium (1453). Wagę transportu i handlu z drugim brzegiem Ad-
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