Christina Constantinidis

Financing of women-owned ventures: The impact of gender and other owner -and firm-related variables

Abstract While women-owned ventures represent an increasing proportion of new businesses in most western countries, most of them have particular financing patterns and encounter barriers in their access to financing. Recent research on the question argues that barriers to financing are mainly dependent on factors other than gender, such as owner- and firm-related characteristics. This quantitative and qualitative study, through descriptive statistics and interview analysis, examines the relationship between financing patterns and barriers and gender from the woman entrepreneurs viewpoint. It explores the behaviours and representations of women entrepreneurs towards financing, and considers to what extent the women see their own approaches as being different from those of men. Our study suggests that a gender effect still exists, and tries to identify its location and the corresponding implications for further research and action.

Sex and gender in family business succession research: A review and forward agenda from a social construction perspective

This article focuses on how family business succession research has engaged and may be further enriched by application of a gender lens as socially constructed. We analyze the succession literature developing a gender terms vocabulary and five themes of historical engagement. Finding a lack of theoretical grounding, we apply the construct of gender, through expectation states theory, revising the Sharma and Irving model of successor commitment to examine how a socially constructed view of gender shifts and opens up points of view. We then present a forward looking agenda to motivate future scholarship.

Représentations sur le genre et réseaux d'affaires chez les femmes entrepreneures

Cet article explore la problematique des reseaux d’affaires chez les femmes entrepreneures sous l’angle du genre. Le but est d’apprehender leurs representations et comportements et de comprendre les difficultes pouvant y etre liees. Cette contribution est double. D’une part les auteurs identifient des facteurs participant a la construction des reseaux avec un focus sur les representations individuelles. D’autre part, ils apportent une explication par les reseaux aux difficultes vecues par les femmes entrepreneures.

Entreprise familiale et genre: Les enjeux de la succession pour les filles

familiale, tel que perçu et vécu par les filles de la famille. Il met en exergue la question du genre, en discutant de son rôle transversal dans la stratégie de reprise-transmission et dans la façon dont les objectifs et prises de décision sont influencés. Une attention particulière est portée sur les dynamiques de genre liées à la composition de la fratrie et sur leurs conséquences pour la position des filles. CHRISTINA CONSTANTINIDIS

Organizational Subcultures and Enterprise Architecture Effectiveness: Findings from a Case Study at a European Airport Company

This paper studies how organizational subcultures influence the effectiveness of the enterprise architecture (EA) function. It provides findings from a case study in a European airport company. We find specific subcultural differences that can lower EA effectiveness. In addition, we discover that not only subcultural differences but also subcultural similarity can reduce EA effectiveness. For instance, the preference for working isolated of some business departments results in a lack of communication between those departments, which lowers EA effectiveness. Also, our data suggest that the subcultural influence is indirect. We identify, amongst others, communication defects as an important intermediary variable.