Gender and family business: new theoretical directions
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
ISSN: 1756-6266
Article publication date: 2 September 2014
Abstract
Purpose
This editorial aims to investigate the interface between gendered processes and family business by exploring the extent to which gendered processes are reinforced (or not) in family business operations and dynamics. This approach will complement the agency and resource-based view theoretical bases that dominate family business research (Chrisman et al., 2009) and further contribute to extending gender theories.
Design/methodology/approach
Acknowledging that gender is socially constructed, this editorial discusses the interface between gendered processes and family business within entrepreneurship research.
Findings
Despite a growing interest in gender and family business, there is limited literature that explores gender theory within family business research. A gender theory approach embracing family business research contributes to a needed theoretical deconstruction of existing perspectives on the operations, sustainability and succession of family businesses in the twenty-first century.
Originality/value
This editorial makes a contribution to extant scholarship by extending gender theories through an exploration of the gendered processes in family business research.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge and express sincere thanks to all the contributors, reviewers, the IJGE editorial team, funding bodies (ESRC RES-000-22-2378) and the networks that brought us together, the sponsors, speakers and participants of the Women in Family Business event where this special issue was born and the readers of this special issue. In addition, the authors would also like to acknowledge all the submissions that could not be included in this special issue. The authors hope that those articles have found suitable journal outlets and they look forward to seeing them published in the near future.
Citation
Al-Dajani, H., Bika, Z., Collins, L. and Swail, J. (2014), "Gender and family business: new theoretical directions", International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 218-230. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-11-2013-0069
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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