Family Business Governance

The Enterprise as a Household

Dados Bibliográficos

ID24098454
AutoresDaria Tereshina (0000-0001-9985-9373, National Research University Higher School of Economics, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Fascículo6
Páginas66-80
Data de publicação2024-12-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEtnograficheskoe obozrenie (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0869-5415 • E-ISSN: 0869-5415
EditoraThe Russian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31857/s0869541524060046
OpenAlexW4406177447
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas27

The article examines family governance among small businesses drawing on the ethnography of entrepreneurs and business families in a Russian town. The study of informal mechanisms of family governance allows us to understand how the subjects of management and control legitimize the existing division of labor in the enterprise and what social and cultural meanings stand behind such a distinction. The study demonstrates that enterprises where a married couple is involved in management, control and ownership are built on the principles of household management, in which the division of labor between spouses often recreates the desired gender order such that the ideology of successful masculinity and a “feeling of being an owner” coexist with the ideals of successful motherhood and familism.

Business · Business administration · Corporate governance · Family business · Accounting · Corporate Finance and Governance · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Finance