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Women, Family and Family Businesses Across Entrepreneurial Contexts
The expert contributors to this insightful book explore the latest research on women’s emancipation through entrepreneurship, specifically in relation to families and family businesses.
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The expert contributors to this insightful book explore the latest research on women’s emancipation through entrepreneurship, specifically in relation to families and family businesses.
The chapters analyse the role the family plays and how women interact with their families in developing their entrepreneurial projects or taking over the lead of the family business. They examine key themes such as the role of religion, women’s agency, business succession, and identity. To illustrate these areas, the book draws on case studies from a wide variety of contexts, including Syrian women refugee entrepreneurs, Tunisian women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial parents working from home. The book also draws attention to previously underexplored topics in women’s entrepreneurship, such as spousal support. Looking to future research, it calls for a better understanding of what emancipation means for women in different contexts.
This book will be a useful resource for scholars and students of entrepreneurship with a particular interest in family business. Its use of global case studies will also be beneficial for practitioners in this field as well as networks of women entrepreneurs.
The chapters analyse the role the family plays and how women interact with their families in developing their entrepreneurial projects or taking over the lead of the family business. They examine key themes such as the role of religion, women’s agency, business succession, and identity. To illustrate these areas, the book draws on case studies from a wide variety of contexts, including Syrian women refugee entrepreneurs, Tunisian women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial parents working from home. The book also draws attention to previously underexplored topics in women’s entrepreneurship, such as spousal support. Looking to future research, it calls for a better understanding of what emancipation means for women in different contexts.
This book will be a useful resource for scholars and students of entrepreneurship with a particular interest in family business. Its use of global case studies will also be beneficial for practitioners in this field as well as networks of women entrepreneurs.
Critical Acclaim
‘This beautifully edited manuscript includes a compilation of the most current scholarship on the complex interweaving among family and business for women entrepreneurs. The authors contribute new scholarship that reexamines the yin and yang of women’s autonomy and control within the business and peacekeeping within the family while teasing out the impact of the family on women’s businesses and women’s influence in family business dealings.’
– Amanda Bullough, University of Delaware, US
‘This latest entry in the series grounded in the Diana Project works extremely well in three main ways: providing a more structured and deeper integrative approach to the intersection of women’s entrepreneurship and family business, including a more diverse set of international contexts, and featuring a broader array of research methodologies.’
– Patricia G. Greene, Babson College, US
‘This dynamic volume merges research in family business with women’s entrepreneurship. It combines work on family firms in developed economies such as Italy and the United States with studies from developing and emerging regions such as Tunisia, Bangladesh, and Lebanon. In doing so, it paints a holistic picture of the challenges in women’s and family firms. Clearly, this book is an important read for anyone interested in women in family business.’
– Linda F. Edelman, Bentley University, US
– Amanda Bullough, University of Delaware, US
‘This latest entry in the series grounded in the Diana Project works extremely well in three main ways: providing a more structured and deeper integrative approach to the intersection of women’s entrepreneurship and family business, including a more diverse set of international contexts, and featuring a broader array of research methodologies.’
– Patricia G. Greene, Babson College, US
‘This dynamic volume merges research in family business with women’s entrepreneurship. It combines work on family firms in developed economies such as Italy and the United States with studies from developing and emerging regions such as Tunisia, Bangladesh, and Lebanon. In doing so, it paints a holistic picture of the challenges in women’s and family firms. Clearly, this book is an important read for anyone interested in women in family business.’
– Linda F. Edelman, Bentley University, US
Contributors
Contributors: Stacy Brecht, Candida G. Brush, Andrea Calabrò, Didier Chabaud, Cinzia Colapinto, Rola El Ali, Sfeir Soumaya El Hayek, Luz Marina Ferro, Vladi Finotto, Jasmine Jaim, Mona Haug, Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire, Adnane Maâlaoui, Nancy Matos, Christine Mauracher, Gry Osnes, Florence Pinot De Villechenon, Kim Poldner, Hedi Yezza
Contents
Contents:
Introduction to Women, Family and Family Businesses Across
Entrepreneurial Contexts 1
Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire, Candida G. Brush, Andrea
Calabrò and Adnane Maâlaoui
PART I WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS IN
A PATERNALIST CONTEXT
1 The influence on succession of women’s involvement in
the boards of directors of family firms, through the lens of
neuroscience 13
Soumaya El Hayek Sfeir
2 Gender equality in family business succession: do religion
and sociocultural factors matter? Evidence from Tunisia 39
Hedi Yezza and Didier Chabaud
PART II WOMEN’S AUTONOMY AND DISTANCE
FROM THE FAMILY
3 Women’s access to debt finance for small businesses in
Bangladesh: the role of family members (excluding husbands) 53
Jasmine Jaim
4 The role of spousal support in the emancipation of refugee
women entrepreneurs in practice: the case of Syrian
women entrepreneurship in Lebanon 77
Rola El Ali and Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire
5 The role of the family environment in innovative female
entrepreneurship in Latin America: cases from Colombia,
Peru, and Argentina 114
Luz Marina Ferro, Nancy Matos and Florence Pinot De Villechenon
PART III LEADING A BUSINESS WITHIN A FAMILY
OR MAKING UP WITH THE FAMILY WHILE
LEADING A BUSINESS: SAME FIGHT?
6 Strategies for overcoming barriers in women’s careers:
agency as autonomy and authority-building courage 155
Mona Haug and Gry Osnes
7 Female entrepreneurship in the wine sector: the role of
family and identity in Italian small and medium wineries’
strategies 188
Cinzia Colapinto, Vladi Finotto and Christine Mauracher
PART IV WOMEN’S PRACTICES TO REALIZE
THEMSELVES WHILE ENTREPRENEURING
8 Women’s entrepreneurship practices of context and sustainability 207
Kim Poldner
9 Reconsidering the practices of home-based entrepreneurs:
how mum and dad entrepreneurs manage work time 233
Stacy Brecht and Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire
Index
Introduction to Women, Family and Family Businesses Across
Entrepreneurial Contexts 1
Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire, Candida G. Brush, Andrea
Calabrò and Adnane Maâlaoui
PART I WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS IN
A PATERNALIST CONTEXT
1 The influence on succession of women’s involvement in
the boards of directors of family firms, through the lens of
neuroscience 13
Soumaya El Hayek Sfeir
2 Gender equality in family business succession: do religion
and sociocultural factors matter? Evidence from Tunisia 39
Hedi Yezza and Didier Chabaud
PART II WOMEN’S AUTONOMY AND DISTANCE
FROM THE FAMILY
3 Women’s access to debt finance for small businesses in
Bangladesh: the role of family members (excluding husbands) 53
Jasmine Jaim
4 The role of spousal support in the emancipation of refugee
women entrepreneurs in practice: the case of Syrian
women entrepreneurship in Lebanon 77
Rola El Ali and Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire
5 The role of the family environment in innovative female
entrepreneurship in Latin America: cases from Colombia,
Peru, and Argentina 114
Luz Marina Ferro, Nancy Matos and Florence Pinot De Villechenon
PART III LEADING A BUSINESS WITHIN A FAMILY
OR MAKING UP WITH THE FAMILY WHILE
LEADING A BUSINESS: SAME FIGHT?
6 Strategies for overcoming barriers in women’s careers:
agency as autonomy and authority-building courage 155
Mona Haug and Gry Osnes
7 Female entrepreneurship in the wine sector: the role of
family and identity in Italian small and medium wineries’
strategies 188
Cinzia Colapinto, Vladi Finotto and Christine Mauracher
PART IV WOMEN’S PRACTICES TO REALIZE
THEMSELVES WHILE ENTREPRENEURING
8 Women’s entrepreneurship practices of context and sustainability 207
Kim Poldner
9 Reconsidering the practices of home-based entrepreneurs:
how mum and dad entrepreneurs manage work time 233
Stacy Brecht and Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire
Index
