Gender, family and business

Guo, Xuguang; Werner, Jon M.

doi:10.1108/ijge-12-2015-0046

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“…However, a factor that may be considered as a potential advantage for women's desirability of becoming a business leader is a range of intangible benefits that family firms offer. This includes security, flexibility, a supportive environment, and an "unhostile area for preparation" (Cromie and O'Sullivan 1999;Dumas 1992Dumas , 1998Frishkoff and Brown 1993;Guo and Werner 2016;Haynes et al 1999;Salganicoff 1990;St- Arnaud and Giguère 2018).…”

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Factors Affecting Women’s Intention to Lead Family Businesses in Mexico

2021

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The purpose of this study is to establish the prevalence of barriers to women’s leadership in the family business in terms of invisibility, the glass ceiling effect, and sexism. We conduct eight semi-structured interviews with women holding leading managerial roles in family businesses in Mexico to identify the factors that impede/facilitate their involvement. We apply the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in order to determine how these factors support/constrain women in their roles. We find that some factors and circumstances are critical for women to achieve an important leadership role in the family business. These factors entail levels of education and experience, the extent to which women participate in strategic decision making and governance of the firm, as well as the support of the company’s founder and other family members for these women’s efficacy and self-esteem. These results challenge some of the extant findings in the literature, thus enriching the current perspectives on the leadership role of women in family firms. Moreover, this research is the first attempt to analyze impediments to women under the TPB perspective as well as one of the few studies conducted on the topic in Latin America, specifically in Mexico.

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Factors Affecting Women’s Intention to Lead Family Businesses in Mexico

2021

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“…Losses are affordable when they are sourced from income accounts that are in excess after accounting for consumption. Spouses, for example, may use wage earnings to cover the entrepreneur's responsibility for household consumption-utility bills, for instance (Guo and Werner, 2016). Spouses and parents may also subsidize the entrepreneur's consumption: spousal employment benefits might fund an entrepreneur's health insurance (Wellington, 2006).…”

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Entrepreneurial decisions: viewing the affordable loss heuristic from an economic well-being perspective

Reddy

2023

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PurposeThis article conceptualises how the economic well-being of an entrepreneurial household affects its members' mental accounting process to establish its affordable loss for a plunge decision.Design/methodology/approachThe article used research literature to analyze the resources available for entrepreneurial endeavours against a household's ability to maintain acceptable minimum material living standards, juxtaposing income and wealth against competing consumption and investment opportunities.FindingsMentally accounting for whether household resources can meet minimum material living standards is central to entrepreneurs' ability to raise affordable loss and decide to invest in a new venture. The article proposes that entrepreneurial households establish affordable loss by availing their money exceeding that required to maintain acceptable minimum material living standards. In low-income households, the author assumes that members are not employed and can thus avail their time (versus money) towards affordable loss.Originality/valueEconomic well-being introduces mental accounts of income and wealth and a hedonic reference outcome in the material living standards of households required to meet basic needs. The article introduces the tension entrepreneurial households face between using their income and wealth towards investing in a new business and maintaining their material living standards. It introduces the idea that a loss can be “affordable” according to an entrepreneurial household's ability to remain above its acceptable minimum material living standard. This view prompts scholars to consider a household unit of analysis and avoid assuming an entrepreneur makes the plunge decision in isolation.

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The Emergence of Parental Entrepreneurship: Some Thoughts About Family Life, Professional Careers and Entrepreneurship

Kunadt¹

2019

From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship

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Gender, family and business

Cited by 8 publications

References 74 publications

Factors Affecting Women’s Intention to Lead Family Businesses in Mexico

Factors Affecting Women’s Intention to Lead Family Businesses in Mexico

Entrepreneurial decisions: viewing the affordable loss heuristic from an economic well-being perspective

The Emergence of Parental Entrepreneurship: Some Thoughts About Family Life, Professional Careers and Entrepreneurship

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