International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Volume 6 Issue 3

Gender and family business: new theoretical directions

Haya Al-Dajani, Zografia Bika, Lorna Collins, Janine Swail

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…

Revisiting women’s entrepreneurship: Insights from the family-firm context and radical subjectivist economics

Mary Barrett

The purpose of this paper is to study women’s entrepreneurship from the family-firm context and radical subjectivist (RS) economics. While women’s entrepreneurship is a…

Assessing the contribution of the ‘theory of matriarchy’ to the entrepreneurship and family business literatures

Robert Smith

The purpose of this paper is to assess the contribution of “Matriarchy” to the entrepreneurship and family business literature. The literature on gendered aspects of…

Gender, power and succession in family farm business

Jane L. Glover

The purpose of the paper is to present a case example of the power struggles and gender issues one daughter faced when she became a partner, and future successor, in the family…

Exploring the “feminisation of poverty” in relation to women’s work and home-based enterprise in slums of the Global South

Sylvia Chant

The purpose of this paper is to explore links between a revisionist view of the “feminisation of poverty” in developing countries and women’s work and home-based enterprise in…

Who leads?: Fresh insights into roles and responsibilities in a heterosexual copreneurial business

Jonathan H Deacon, Jacqueline A Harris, Louise Worth

The purpose of this paper is to engage with contemporary gender and entrepreneurship theories to gain insights into the division of labour, capitals and capacities and gendered…