Women in Business Families: From Past to Present

ISBN-13: 9780367734923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

Jarna Heinonen; Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.