Sex and gender in family business succession research: A review and forward agenda from a social construction perspective

Nelson, Teresa; Constantinidis, Christina

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Sex and gender in family business succession research: A review and forward agenda from a social construction perspective

Nelson, Teresa; Constantinidis, Christina

2017 • In Family Business Review, 30 (3), p. 219-241

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Nelson Teresa & Constantinidis Christina, Sex and Gender in Family Business Succession Research: A Review and Forward Agenda From a Social Construction Perspective, Family Business Review, 30(3), pp. 219-241. Copyright © [2017] (Copyright Holder). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.

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Family business succession; Social construction; Primogeniture; Gender; Sharma and Irving model of successor commitment

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[en] This article focuses on how family business succession research has engaged and may be further enriched by application of a gender lens as socially constructed. We analyze the succession literature developing a gender terms vocabulary and five themes of historical engagement. Finding a lack of theoretical grounding, we apply the construct of gender, through expectation states theory, revising the Sharma and Irving model of successor commitment to examine how a socially constructed view of gender shifts and opens up points of view. We then present a forward looking agenda to motivate future scholarship.

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Center for Research in Economics and Management

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General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory

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Nelson, Teresa; Simmons School of Management > Professor

Constantinidis, Christina ; Université de Liège > HEC Liège : UER > UER Management

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English

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Sex and gender in family business succession research: A review and forward agenda from a social construction perspective

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September 2017

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Family Business Review

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0894-4865

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1741-6248

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Blackwell Publishing

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219-241

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