1st Edition
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.
- Introduction
- Gender, Economy and Time
- Is She That Special? The Long History of Business Women as Unlikely Heroic Entrepreneurs
- The Mistress of the Iron
- Female Manager in the Family Firm Hackman & Co in the Nineteenth-century Russia and Finland
- (In)visibility in the Family Business
- ‘All the Days of Their Lives’: The Lifecycle of a Family Business
- Statutory Invisibility: Urban Business Women Legal and Political Rights in the 18th Century Finland
- Daughters and Family Business Succession
- He Suddenly Died: Family Firms, Unplanned Succession and Grief
- Conclusions and Moving Forward
Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Kovalainen Anne
Section 1: Heroic female entrepreneurs/heroism
Anu Lahtinen
Veli Pekka Toropainen
Ulla Ijäs
Section 2: Invisibility/Visibility
Henrietta Nilson
Deborah Simonton
Jarkko Keskinen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Section 3: Succession
Francesca Maria Cesaroni and Annalisa Sentuti
Jarna Heinonen and Elisabet Ljunggren
Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Biography
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.