Women, Family and Family Businesses Across Entrepreneurial Contexts

Edited by Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire, Professor of Strategic Management and Head of the Female Entrepreneurship for a Renewed Economy Research Chair, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France, Candida G. Brush, Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Chair of Entrepreneurship, Babson College, US and Visiting Adjunct, Nord University, Norway and Dublin City University, Ireland, Andrea Calabrò, Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship and Adnane Maâlaoui, Professor of Entrepreneurship, IPAG Business School, France

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