Daughters’ involvement and female succession in family businesses: a multiple case study

Floris, Michela;Dettori, Angela

2021-01-01

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Abstract

This study intends to contribute to this Special Issue by investigating a relevant topic that inspires numerous studies and deserves to be deepened from several perspectives: daughters’ succession. Specifically, building on the family embeddedness perspective, this paper investigates an unexplored field, trying to answer the following question: What happens when a woman becomes a mother after being involved in a family firm? Based on a multiple-case study of four small family-owned firms, this study shows interesting academic and practical implications, revealing four issues that daughters experience when they attain motherhood after being involved in a family firm, namely, family discouragement, family–coach approach, family persuasion and role demotion, resulting in intertwining among family support, family protectiveness and daughter self-efficacy.