TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract The importance of succession in family business is well documented and there is general agreement that successful succession represents a key factor in the success or otherwise of individual businesses owned and run by families. The importance of gender in family business succession is a much more recent topic, where initial work has focussed very much on the increasing tendency for women to take on the family business as a successor. Far less research, however, considers the scenario where a female leader passes on the business, whether that takes the form of family succession, a new leader from out with the family or indeed business sale. This dearth of research is not entirely surprising: whilst female leaders in a family business context are not new, their numbers have been relatively small and often mediated through the lens of co-preneurship with a male partner. As women increasingly succeed to and found family businesses however, the gender dimension within family business succession develops and the research response forms the basis for this chapter.
VL  - 9A
SN  - 978-1-78756-372-8, 978-1-78756-371-1/2040-7246
DO  - 10.1108/S2040-72462018000009A005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-72462018000009A005
AU  - Seaman Claire
AU  - Ross Susanne
AU  - Bent Richard
ED  - David Higgins
ED  - Paul Jones
ED  - Pauric McGowan
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Extending Cross-Gender Succession Theories: Mother–Son Succession in Family Business
T2  - Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking Through Multi-Voices, Reflections on Emerging Debates
T3  - Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 79
EP  - 90
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -