A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Continuity and change in family business genderstructures: an institutional perspective
Authors: Hytti, Ulla; Stenholm, Pekka; Alsos, Gry Agnete
Editors: Barrett Mary, Huybrechts Jolien, Lee Jean S.K.
Publication year: 2024
Book title : Women in Family Business: New Perspectives, Contexts and Roles
First page : 111
Last page: 142
ISBN: 978-1-80220-635-7
eISBN: 978-1-80220-636-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802206364.00013
Web address : https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802206364.00013
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/380487266
This chapter addresses gender structures of family business organizations. We take an institutional perspective to investigate how institutional arrangements influence gender structures in family firms and how they are sustained and altered. Our findings demonstrate that regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional elements influence changes or stability in gender structures of family firms over time. We identify change mechanisms, identified as institutional elements facilitating change in gender structures, and continuity mechanisms, interpreted as institutional elements hampering such change. The findings indicate that regulative, normative, and cognitive institutions interplay. Changes in gender structures demand that cognitive institutions are challenged from within family businesses. Furthermore, interaction between the family and business spheres influences the extent to which norms and cognitive institutions are challenged.
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