Women in Family Business

Edited by Mary Barrett, Professor of Management, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong, Australia, Jolien Huybrechts, Associate Professor in Family Business and Entrepreneurship, Department of Organization, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Jean S.K. Lee, Michelin Chair Professor in Leadership and Human Resources Management, Professor of Management, Associate Dean (Research) and Co-Director, CEIBS Centre for Family Heritage, Shanghai, China

Contents:

Foreword by Justin Craig xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Revisiting and previewing research on women in family business 1
Jolien Huybrechts, Mary Barrett, and Jean S. K. Lee

PART I WOMEN IN FAMILY BUSINESS ROLES
2 Gender equality in firm leadership worldwide: where are
we now and how do family and non-family firms differ? 21
Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Freya Onneken, Maren Rottler,
Robert Strohmeyer and Mariateresa Torchia
3 Women in intrafamily business succession: a systematic
literature review and future research agenda 63
Aleš Kubíček and Ondřej Machek
4 Daughters’ succession in Chinese family businesses: an
examination of cultural and institutional influences 89
Huiping Xian and Nan Jiang

PART II WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
5 Continuity and change in family business gender
structures: an institutional perspective 111
Ulla Hytti, Pekka Stenholm and Gry Agnete Alsos
6 The development and functioning of spousal ownership
teams in family firms 143
John James Cater III and Marilyn Young
7 The role of the family in women’s microentrepreneurial
venturing: evidence from Sri Lanka 174
Nadeera Ranabahu and Mary Barrett
8 How daughters in Saudi Arabian family firms are
conquering gendered constraints: a case study 202
Sara Alshareef and Haya Al-Dajani

PART III WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION
9 Family business succession planning: do outcomes depend
on the predominant gender on the management board? 225
Rosemarie Kay, André Pahnke and Friederike Welter
10 Is it ‘natural’? Gendered norms at work in the succession
process of a family business run by three families 250
Giovanna Campopiano and Olimpia Meglio
11 The effect of founder–successor value congruence on
succession willingness: the moderating effect of gender 274
Jean S. K. Lee and Guozhen Zhao