Gender and Family Entrepreneurship

'The authors give a comprehensive view of a timely topic-the role of gender in family entrepreneurship. I applaud the authors for addressing this important issue that is taking on more relevance daily around the world.'— Dianne H.B. Welsh, Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina Greensboro

'In this edited book, a team of international scholars, including Ratten, Ramadani, Dana, Hisrich and Ferreira, is addressing a set of important issues at the crossroads of gender and family entrepreneurship. This useful book combines both perspectives with the aim to bring value to entrepreneurship scholarship, policy and practice.'— Alain Fayolle, Entrepreneurship Distinguished Professor, Director of Research Centre, Emlyon Business School

'Family business is one of the most important and significant areas of business management as it relates to social issues. This book about gender and family entrepreneurship brings together international scholars that focus mostly on the changing societal trends towards females in family business. It has a range of topics from the role of self-employment for female lawyers in the United States, to the dowager principle of females in family business in the United Kingdom, to rehabilitation through entrepreneurship in Spain. The book takes a different perspective by highlighting the role gender plays in family entrepreneurship.' — Pramodita Sharma, Professor & Daniel Clark Sanders Chair, Grossman School of Business, UVM, and Visiting Professor, Kellogg School of Management

'A remarkable team has put together a collection of studies hitting on important and controversial topics in family entrepreneurship. Drawing from top scholars around the globe, they attack subjects that have been ignored or downplayed in business education. The findings reported here enable academics to offer more value to students, consultants to better assist their family business clients, and practitioners to improve their abilities to manage the family and business relationships.' — Frank Hoy, Professor, Director of the Collaborative for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

'Family business, or family entrepreneurship, is the right approach to understand most of the entrepreneurial activity in today's world and in the future. It is also a homogeneous view because it is transversal and present in all industrial sectors. We are dealing with a book that brings the particular study from the perspective of gender and from the most current approach, which no longer focuses on purely biological differences. At a global level, old social roles are also being overcome, perhaps not with sufficient speed, and the new research focuses on more promising aspects such as attitudes, values and cultural dimensions. The good news is that there is no longer essential a feminist approach to analyse and describe the situation of "Gender and Family Entrepreneurship".' — Salvador Roig, Dpto. Dirección de Empresas, Universitat de València, Spain

'Even though there is significant work on gender in entrepreneurship and corporate leadership, it is surprising that few works consider gender in family entrepreneurship. This book fills an important gap in scholarship by considering how gender relates to important topics such as succession, stereotypes, family structure, generational differences and governance, with implications for families, scholars and policy-makers.' —Professor Candida G. Brush, Vice Provost, Global Entrepreneurial Leadership; Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Chair of Entrepreneurship; Research Director, Arthur M. Blank Center, Babson College