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Women in Family Business
New Perspectives, Contexts and Roles
9781802206357 Edward Elgar Publishing
This forward-thinking book provides an invaluable contribution to the burgeoning field of research on women in family business. Combining academic rigour with first-hand narrative accounts, Women in Family Business explores classic family business concerns while considering how gender, feminism and cultural differences play a part in these organizations.
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This forward-thinking book provides an invaluable contribution to the burgeoning field of research on women in family business. Combining academic rigour with first-hand narrative accounts, Women in Family Business explores classic family business concerns while considering how gender, feminism and cultural differences play a part in these organizations.
Adopting a multidisciplinary method of enquiry, the book’s editors bring together expert researchers from across the globe to analyse and assess a variety of family business organizations. Chapters explore the gender equality differences between family and non-family firms, daughters’ succession in Chinese family businesses, the development and functioning of spousal ownership teams and how daughters in Saudi Arabian family firms are conquering gender constraints. Through quantitative data analysis, literature reviews and in-depth case studies, this book provides important insights into women in family businesses in specific contexts and offers inspiring suggestions for future research.
Women in Family Business will be a crucial read for students, academics and researchers interested in family business, entrepreneurship, gender studies, business and management, politics and public policy, and development studies. Producing key practical recommendations for the future of women in family business, this book will also prove highly beneficial for business advisers as well as members of family and non-family businesses.
Adopting a multidisciplinary method of enquiry, the book’s editors bring together expert researchers from across the globe to analyse and assess a variety of family business organizations. Chapters explore the gender equality differences between family and non-family firms, daughters’ succession in Chinese family businesses, the development and functioning of spousal ownership teams and how daughters in Saudi Arabian family firms are conquering gender constraints. Through quantitative data analysis, literature reviews and in-depth case studies, this book provides important insights into women in family businesses in specific contexts and offers inspiring suggestions for future research.
Women in Family Business will be a crucial read for students, academics and researchers interested in family business, entrepreneurship, gender studies, business and management, politics and public policy, and development studies. Producing key practical recommendations for the future of women in family business, this book will also prove highly beneficial for business advisers as well as members of family and non-family businesses.
Critical Acclaim
‘This insightful book sheds light on the evolving roles of women in family businesses across countries and cultures. The international perspectives from some of the leading researchers in the field highlight progress while illuminating opportunities to improve current knowledge and organizational practices. An important read for scholars and practitioners alike.’
– Torsten Pieper, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US
‘This book is an important contribution to gender studies. It provides an excellent overview of the prevailing variance in gender equality around the world. Comprehensive reviews complement research using big data sets and carefully designed case studies to present a vivid picture of the rapidly shifting gender dynamics in our professional world. A must-read for business leaders eager to build strong diverse teams and for policy makers and educators passionate about pursuing the United Nations gender equality goals.’
– Pramodita Sharma, University of Vermont, US
– Torsten Pieper, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US
‘This book is an important contribution to gender studies. It provides an excellent overview of the prevailing variance in gender equality around the world. Comprehensive reviews complement research using big data sets and carefully designed case studies to present a vivid picture of the rapidly shifting gender dynamics in our professional world. A must-read for business leaders eager to build strong diverse teams and for policy makers and educators passionate about pursuing the United Nations gender equality goals.’
– Pramodita Sharma, University of Vermont, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Haya Al-Dajani, Sara Alshareef, Gry Agnete Alsos, Mary Barrett, Giovanna Campopiano, Jim Cater, Jolien Huybrechts, Ulla Hytti, Nan Jiang, Rosemarie Kay, Aleš Kubíček, Jean S.K. Lee, Ondřej Machek, Olimpia Meglio, Freya Onneken, André Pahnke, Nadeera Ranabahu, Maren Rottler, Pekka Stenholm, Robert Strohmeyer, Mariateresa Torchia, Friederike Welter, Huiping Xian, Marilyn Young, Guozhen Zhao
Contents
Contents:
Foreword by Justin Craig xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Revisiting and previewing research on women in family business 1
Jolien Huybrechts, Mary Barrett, and Jean S. K. Lee
PART I WOMEN IN FAMILY BUSINESS ROLES
2 Gender equality in firm leadership worldwide: where are
we now and how do family and non-family firms differ? 21
Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Freya Onneken, Maren Rottler,
Robert Strohmeyer and Mariateresa Torchia
3 Women in intrafamily business succession: a systematic
literature review and future research agenda 63
Aleš Kubíček and Ondřej Machek
4 Daughters’ succession in Chinese family businesses: an
examination of cultural and institutional influences 89
Huiping Xian and Nan Jiang
PART II WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
5 Continuity and change in family business gender
structures: an institutional perspective 111
Ulla Hytti, Pekka Stenholm and Gry Agnete Alsos
6 The development and functioning of spousal ownership
teams in family firms 143
John James Cater III and Marilyn Young
7 The role of the family in women’s microentrepreneurial
venturing: evidence from Sri Lanka 174
Nadeera Ranabahu and Mary Barrett
8 How daughters in Saudi Arabian family firms are
conquering gendered constraints: a case study 202
Sara Alshareef and Haya Al-Dajani
PART III WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION
9 Family business succession planning: do outcomes depend
on the predominant gender on the management board? 225
Rosemarie Kay, André Pahnke and Friederike Welter
10 Is it ‘natural’? Gendered norms at work in the succession
process of a family business run by three families 250
Giovanna Campopiano and Olimpia Meglio
11 The effect of founder–successor value congruence on
succession willingness: the moderating effect of gender 274
Jean S. K. Lee and Guozhen Zhao
Foreword by Justin Craig xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Revisiting and previewing research on women in family business 1
Jolien Huybrechts, Mary Barrett, and Jean S. K. Lee
PART I WOMEN IN FAMILY BUSINESS ROLES
2 Gender equality in firm leadership worldwide: where are
we now and how do family and non-family firms differ? 21
Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Freya Onneken, Maren Rottler,
Robert Strohmeyer and Mariateresa Torchia
3 Women in intrafamily business succession: a systematic
literature review and future research agenda 63
Aleš Kubíček and Ondřej Machek
4 Daughters’ succession in Chinese family businesses: an
examination of cultural and institutional influences 89
Huiping Xian and Nan Jiang
PART II WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
5 Continuity and change in family business gender
structures: an institutional perspective 111
Ulla Hytti, Pekka Stenholm and Gry Agnete Alsos
6 The development and functioning of spousal ownership
teams in family firms 143
John James Cater III and Marilyn Young
7 The role of the family in women’s microentrepreneurial
venturing: evidence from Sri Lanka 174
Nadeera Ranabahu and Mary Barrett
8 How daughters in Saudi Arabian family firms are
conquering gendered constraints: a case study 202
Sara Alshareef and Haya Al-Dajani
PART III WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION
9 Family business succession planning: do outcomes depend
on the predominant gender on the management board? 225
Rosemarie Kay, André Pahnke and Friederike Welter
10 Is it ‘natural’? Gendered norms at work in the succession
process of a family business run by three families 250
Giovanna Campopiano and Olimpia Meglio
11 The effect of founder–successor value congruence on
succession willingness: the moderating effect of gender 274
Jean S. K. Lee and Guozhen Zhao
