Women in Business Families - From Past to Present

List of contents

1. Introduction
Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen



2. Gender, Economy and Time


Kovalainen Anne
Section 1: Heroic female entrepreneurs/heroism



3. Is She That Special? The Long History of Business Women as Unlikely Heroic Entrepreneurs


Anu Lahtinen



4. The Mistress of the Iron


Veli Pekka Toropainen



5. Female Manager in the Family Firm Hackman & Co in the Nineteenth-century Russia and Finland


Ulla Ijäs
Section 2: Invisibility/Visibility



6. (In)visibility in the Family Business


Henrietta Nilson



7. ‘All the Days of Their Lives’: The Lifecycle of a Family Business


Deborah Simonton



8. Statutory Invisibility: Urban Business Women Legal and Political Rights in the 18th Century Finland


Jarkko Keskinen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Section 3: Succession



9. Daughters and Family Business Succession


Francesca Maria Cesaroni and Annalisa Sentuti



10. He Suddenly Died: Family Firms, Unplanned Succession and Grief


Jarna Heinonen and Elisabet Ljunggren



11. Conclusions and Moving Forward

Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen

About the author

Jarna Heinonen is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Turku, School of Economics, Finland.
Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen is Professor of Finnish History at the University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities, Finland.

Summary

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, balanc

Product details

• Authors: Jarna Vainio-Korhonen Heinonen
• Assisted by: Jarna Heinonen (Editor), Heinonen Jarna (Editor), Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen (Editor), Vainio-Korhonen Kirsi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367734923
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73492-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: work & labour, Ownership and organization of enterprises, Ownership & Organization Of Enterprises, Sociology: work and labour, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups