Women in business families : from past to present
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Women in business families : from past to present
（Routledge advances in management and business studies）
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based. The family business rested on the division of labor among family members. Therefore the family was both socially and economically the foundation of the family business. Families were not only production units, but also education and consumption units that conveyed norm structures, values and professional identity to next generation. Although female family members have always been active participants in family businesses over the centuries, their role has often been neglected in previous studies.
Women in Business Families: From Past to Present presents both conceptual and theoretically informed empirical papers addressing three related themes relevant for family business and gender in past and in present: heroic women entrepreneurs; invisibility / visibility of women in businesses; and business succession.
The book Women in Business Families: From Past to Present balances between both historical and contemporary analyses. The chapters integrate the notions of time and gender in focusing on family businesses or business families in past and in present. This volume will be of vital reading to researchers and academics in the fields of Gender Studies, Family Business, Organizational studies, Entrepreneurship and the various related disciplines.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Gender, Economy and Time
Kovalainen Anne
Section 1: Heroic female entrepreneurs/heroism
Is She That Special? The Long History of Business Women as Unlikely Heroic Entrepreneurs
Anu Lahtinen
The Mistress of the Iron
Veli Pekka Toropainen
Female Manager in the Family Firm Hackman & Co in the Nineteenth-century Russia and Finland
Ulla Ijas
Section 2: Invisibility/Visibility
(In)visibility in the Family Business
Henrietta Nilson
'All the Days of Their Lives': The Lifecycle of a Family Business
Deborah Simonton
Statutory Invisibility: Urban Business Women Legal and Political Rights in the 18th Century Finland
Jarkko Keskinen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Section 3: Succession
Daughters and Family Business Succession
Francesca Maria Cesaroni and Annalisa Sentuti
He Suddenly Died: Family Firms, Unplanned Succession and Grief
Jarna Heinonen and Elisabet Ljunggren
Conclusions and Moving Forward
Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
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