Managerial work and gender—Ethnography of cooperative relationships in small software companies

Eriksson, Päivi; Henttonen, Elina; Meriläinen, Susan

doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2008.09.001

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“…These authors stress the importance of including contextual information in entrepreneurship research, since they show that gender relations are context dependent. Some Finnish studies, for example, have disconfirmed the internationally held opinion that women business owners lack growth aspirations, or networking strategies (Eriksson et al 2008a(Eriksson et al , 2008b. Nordic scholars also questioned the "under-performance"…”

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From feminism to FemInc.ism: On the uneasy relationship between feminism, entrepreneurship and the Nordic welfare state

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From feminism to FemInc.ism: On the uneasy relationship between feminism, entrepreneurship and the Nordic welfare state

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“…Language and narratives are powerful transmitters of meaning about who one is as an individual and what is seen as appropriate behavior for example for a manager and his/her spouse (Wodak, 1997;Mills & Mullany, 2011;Hall & Bucholtz, 1995) and they help to identify what kind of gender is produced and whether the nature of language is gendered (e.g. Runté & Mills, 2006;Eriksson, Henttonen & Meriläinen, 2008;Myrden, Mills & Helms Mills, 2011). In asking how the spouse and her/his support are constructed with respect to gender, I am also interested in how gender relations are done and mediated through narratives.…”

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How do male managers narrate their female spouse ' s role in their career?

Heikkinen

2014

Gender in Management: An International Journal

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Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate how male managers make meaning the role of their female spouses along with their careers. Design/methodology/approach – The topic was investigated within a Finnish context by analyzing the narratives of 29 male managers. Common to the men were their managerial position and extensive work experience. All the men had or had had one or more spouses during their careers, and all of them were fathers. Findings – A typology distinguishing four types of female spouses was constructed: supporting, balance-seeking, care-providing, and success-expecting types. These types describe the various roles that are constructed in relation to the female partner during a male manager ' s career, pointing out the ambiguous nature of the phenomenon. Originality/value – The study highlights that to understand more about male managers ' experience in their careers, the author needs to acknowledge how a male manager ' s career unfolds in tandem with their family life, as well as the norms and gender roles related to the family. Research approaches that enable examination from that perspective should be developed.

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“…Although it is an important element in terms of theoretical descriptions of small companies (Fillion, 1999), there is still insufficient information about managerial work in small businesses (Florén, 2006;Fuller-Love, 2006;O´Gorman et al, 2005) because most empirical studies on this topic have been conducted in large companies (Carlson, 1951;Carroll and Gillen, 1987;Eriksson et al, 2008;Konrad et al, 2001;Mintzberg, 1973;Stewart, 1976;Tengblad, 2006;Tengblad, 2012. The term that indicates who is responsible for small enterprises is known by different names according to their attributes in the interests of the company: entrepreneur, owner, manager, entrepreneur-owner, entrepreneur-manager, owner-manager and entrepreneur-owner-manager (Jennings and Beaver, 1995). This article focuses on the individual owner, who establishes and manages a business with the main purpose of furthering personal goals (Jennings and Beaver, 1995), therefore in our paper the term owner-manager of small business is used.…”

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What do small business owner-managers do? A managerial work perspective

Oliveira¹,

Escrivão²,

Nagano³

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J Glob Entrepr Res

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This article proposes management styles to small business owner-managers based on the two most important approaches to managerial work. The managerial work performance of small business owner-managers was analyzed from different perspectives. An important perspective, known as small business owner-manager behavior studies, is founded on the manager's functions (process approach) and roles (roles approach). This perspective is based on studies on the work of the manager of large businesses. Even if on the one hand this transfer of concepts from large to small business reveals problems, on the other hand it has proven to be a rich opportunity for research. This research applied a survey methodology that asked small business owners to answer a questionnaire. The results indicated that both approaches -process and roles -are useful to characterize the work of small business owner-managers. Four managerial styles were identified: (1) activity structuring (2) public relations (3) supervision and leading, and (4) conflict solver. Regarding the four different styles, we believe our paper can contribute to the development and improvement of specific theories about small business management, based on the study of the nature of managerial work.

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Managerial work and gender—Ethnography of cooperative relationships in small software companies

Cited by 27 publications

References 35 publications

From feminism to FemInc.ism: On the uneasy relationship between feminism, entrepreneurship and the Nordic welfare state

From feminism to FemInc.ism: On the uneasy relationship between feminism, entrepreneurship and the Nordic welfare state

How do male managers narrate their female spouse ' s role in their career?

What do small business owner-managers do? A managerial work perspective

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