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Women in management: Are family firms somehow special?

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  • Meroño-Cerdán, à ngel L
  • López-Nicolás, Carolina

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Firms managed by women present some differences in organizational conditions in terms of type of business and manager profile. The aim of this study is to check if those differences persist in family firms where the presence of female managers is higher, especially in second or subsequent generation family firms, than in non-family firms. The results reveal that family firms run by women are not smaller, but are concentrated in the services sector like non-family firms. Regarding the manager profile there are no differences either in the level of training or the age of female managers. They possess, however, less management experience but only in first generation family firms. In sum, gender differences in the type of business and in the manager profile found in the management literature disappear in family firms, only a sectoral gender effect persists.

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  • Meroño-Cerdán, à ngel L & López-Nicolás, Carolina, 2017. "Women in management: Are family firms somehow special?," Journal of Management & Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 23(2), pages 224-240, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jomorg:v:23:y:2017:i:02:p:224-240_00
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