This paper analyzes how daughters describe their self-positioning in masculine family businesses, once the succession process from father/predecessor to daughter/successor has occurred. Using the concept of gender identity self-positioning as a narrative, we investigate four daughters in different masculine family businesses characterized by different leadership styles of the predecessors. We explored language patterns in these businesses by discussing the intersection of family and business. The construction of the self as close to or distant from the father's leadership style and the organizational cultural systems and employees allows different self-positioning to emerge, strengthening the vision of ‘doing gender’ as a process embedded in social relationships, rather than a static construct tied to stereotypes and labels. We want to contribute to the academic debate by offering new directions for integrating existing work on women’s self-identity and self-legitimation and family business succession.

Daughter self-positioning in family business succession. Narrative analysis from masculine industry / Consiglio, Stefano; Mussolino, Donata; Cicellin, Mariavittoria; Pezzillo Iacono, Mario; Martinez, Marcello. - (2016).

Daughter self-positioning in family business succession. Narrative analysis from masculine industry

CONSIGLIO, Stefano;MUSSOLINO, DONATA;Cicellin, Mariavittoria;
2016

Abstract

This paper analyzes how daughters describe their self-positioning in masculine family businesses, once the succession process from father/predecessor to daughter/successor has occurred. Using the concept of gender identity self-positioning as a narrative, we investigate four daughters in different masculine family businesses characterized by different leadership styles of the predecessors. We explored language patterns in these businesses by discussing the intersection of family and business. The construction of the self as close to or distant from the father's leadership style and the organizational cultural systems and employees allows different self-positioning to emerge, strengthening the vision of ‘doing gender’ as a process embedded in social relationships, rather than a static construct tied to stereotypes and labels. We want to contribute to the academic debate by offering new directions for integrating existing work on women’s self-identity and self-legitimation and family business succession.
2016
Daughter self-positioning in family business succession. Narrative analysis from masculine industry / Consiglio, Stefano; Mussolino, Donata; Cicellin, Mariavittoria; Pezzillo Iacono, Mario; Martinez, Marcello. - (2016).
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