“…The likelihood of daughters being compared with their mothers' managerial styles may create greater tensions in mother-daughter successions than those present in father-daughter successions, due to the identification of same sex (Vera and Dean, 2005). In patriarchal/familistic cultural systems, daughters are less likely to be systematically trained and prepared for leadership roles in the family business (Howorth and Assaraf Ali, 2001;Perricone, Earle and Taplin, 2001;Dumas, Dupuis, Richer and St.-Cyr, 1995), making gender awareness in the succession planning process crucial (Harveston, Davis and Lyden, 1997). Daughters have been shown to take on roles in emerging, strategically important areas, whereas sons take on roles that are more in line with the way things have been done in the past (García-Élvare, López-Sintas and Gonzalvo, 2002).…”