... responses, do those perceptions change if men and women are leaders of the family business and does the family's socioemotional wealth (SEW) influence such responses. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a quantitative research design to determine if financial performance perceptions of family...

...Martina Brophy; Maura McAdam; Eric Clinton Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the identity work undertaken by female next generation to navigate (in)visibility in family businesses with male successors. To enhance understanding of gendered identity work in family businesses...

... with a qualitative approach being used to gather and analyze data through in-depth interviews with several Indonesian family business owners having experience of succession. Findings The participation of women in family business management in several major Indonesian cities is quite extensive, especially...

...Silvia Gherardi; Manuela Perrotta Purpose – This paper aims to explore gender and legitimacy in family business succession. Design/methodology/approach – Within the theoretical framework of French pragmatic sociology, the authors conceptualise the family business as the locus where...

... Family business Women’s entrepreneurship Micro businesses There was an overwhelming sense of a group of women who were moving out of poverty – a group of people who were in fact “business women”. With respect to policy, the survey results would suggest that, at a micro level, support from...

... Gender Radical subjectivism Family business Entrepreneurial imagination Entrepreneurship theory Women’s entrepreneurship Research interest in women’s entrepreneurship has continued to expand over the past 20 years. Long-established journals such as Entrepreneurship: Theory...

...Dr Lorna Collins,; Dr. Haya Al-Dajani,; Dr. Zografia Bika,; Dr. Janine Swail; Robert Smith 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 capacities and gendered identities within husband and wife heterosexual copreneurial businesses. This paper acknowledges copreneurship as a constituent sub group of research within family business and in doing so, the wider small business domain. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple exploratory...

...Dr Lorna Collins,; Dr. Haya Al-Dajani,; Dr. Zografia Bika,; Dr. Janine Swail; Haya Al-Dajani; Zografia Bika; Lorna Collins; Janine Swail Purpose – This editorial aims to investigate the interface between gendered processes and family business by exploring the extent to which gendered processes...

...Dr Lorna Collins,; Dr. Haya Al-Dajani,; Dr. Zografia Bika,; Dr. Janine Swail; Jane L. Glover Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present a case example of the power struggles and gender issues one daughter faced when she became a partner, and future successor, in the family business...

... at the grassroots level seemed to be a “feminisation of responsibility and/or obligation” rather than a “feminisation of poverty” in the conventional sense of widening gender gaps in economic status. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Family business Gender theory Women Informal economy Work...

... Publishing Limited 2014 Family business Rural areas Female entrepreneurship Environmental factors The paper begins by providing the background to this research project, including: a review of the existing literature concerning the importance of entrepreneurship, and female entrepreneurship...