Abstract
Drawing on the family embeddedness perspective, this study analyses women’s involvement in a dynamic perspective, investigating how motherhood, which occurred after succession, influenced daughters’ roles within the family business.
Through a multiple case study of four small family-owned firms, our findings show four different treatments that women experienced when they became mothers after receiving the family firm’s baton.
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