Women in Business Families - From Past to Present

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.

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 > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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