https://www.mdu.se/

mdu.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Daughters taking over the family business: Their justification work within a dual regime of engagement
Univ Trento, Res Unit Commun Org Learning & Aesthet, Trento, Italy..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7026-2418
Univ London, Sch Business & Management, Technol & Org, London, England..
2016 (English)In: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, ISSN 1756-6266, E-ISSN 1756-6274, Vol. 8, no 1, p. 28-47Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose - This paper aims to explore gender and legitimacy in family business succession. Design/methodology/approach - Within the theoretical framework of French pragmatic sociology, the authors conceptualise the family business as the locus where two regimes of engagement are present, generating the co-presence of two orders of worth, namely the domestic and the industrial. Taking a processual approach to entrepreneuring, and using case studies of small enterprises in Italy, this paper explores the case of daughters taking over the family firms. Findings - The paper shows how the daughters' perceived gender inequality in the succession process is justified and how the justification work and the production of legitimacy are accomplished, shifting from one order of worth to the other. Originality/value - The value of the contribution consists in pointing to how gender inequality is reproduced and justified inside the family business. The dual regime of engagement is what justifies the reproduction of a specific gender regime within the family business. Moreover, the paper adds a "gender" perspective to French pragmatist sociology.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD , 2016. Vol. 8, no 1, p. 28-47
Keywords [en]
Family business, Gender inequality, French pragmatist sociology, Gender regime, Justification work, Regime of engagement
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-51916DOI: 10.1108/IJGE-11-2014-0044ISI: 000373959200002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84960393107OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-51916DiVA, id: diva2:1484063
Available from: 2020-10-27 Created: 2020-10-27 Last updated: 2020-10-27Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Gherardi, Silvia

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Gherardi, Silvia
In the same journal
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
Other Social Sciences

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 52 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf