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businesses (FCBs) in a series of distinct learning phases. Because that study's sample did not include many women, our present … study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … context. Case study analysis of an international sample of women FCB leaders, using frameworks which avoid essentialist …
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firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women … adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such roles. Our research aims to examine the career progression of women … to establish whether and how the journey of women family business leaders follow different pathways. This chapter focuses …
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Despite their numerical and economic significance to Australia, family businesses have not been extensively researched. This paper reports results from a nation-wide study of Australian family owned businesses that sought to ascertain and understand their management and control practices. In...
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Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore some issues regarding the career development of men and women retail … dominated by male norms and values and this has implications for the way in which men and women managers experience their jobs …
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In 2009, workers and their families across the country felt the impact of serious economic downturn, with unemployment reaching a 26-year high. While recent news suggests things may be improving, we cannot forget that for many low-wage and hourly workers -- who now represent over a quarter of...
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gender neutral parental leave purports to eliminate discriminatory practices in granting leave for childcare to men and women …This paper presents an ideal legislative model for South Korea to realize gender equality in reconciling work and … approach in the feminist legal theory. The current system in South Korea fails to realize gender equality because it provides …
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Women are facing increasing financial responsibility, while at the same time, the consumer financial world is evolving … at an extraordinary pace. These trends make a imperative that we better understand the evolving nature of gender … accelerating the narrowing of these gaps. The results of the study indicate that the assumption can on longer be made that women …
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Over the past forty years women have made significant advancements in the labor force through the elimination of gender … relationship between fertility timing and the career attainments of women has evolved in the face of these achievements. I develop … birth on wages and human capital accumulation for women aged 35-50 at in the year 2005. Using the results from my analysis I …
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Women are a significant presence in today's workforce; however, few rise to the top management ranks. Therefore, there … that may contribute to women's objective (income, span of control, promotions) and subjective (self-reported satisfaction …, motivation for training), organizational (supervisor gender, percentage of male subordinates) and power (extent of supervisory …
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for men that are very small. The own-wage elasticity for women is positive and the cross-wage elasticity for women … determines how changes in individual wage rates translate into family earnings changes. The responses of women to changes in … suggest that the earnings of the wives of low-income men would actually have fallen over the decade if women's tabor supply …
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