Gender Interactions Within the Family Firm (Amore et al. 2014) | FT50 MS VSSER25

#VSSER25 #session3🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where cutting-edge research meets real-world curiosity. You’re listening to the Weekend Researcher series, and today, we’re diving into a question as old as business itself… but with a modern, bold twist.Imagine a boardroom. A long table, high ceilings, a mix of tradition and ambition in the air. Now picture that boardroom inside a family firm — not just a company, but a legacy passed down from one generation to the next. In that room are leaders, family members, strategists. But here’s the twist: what happens when women sit at the helm? What happens when female CEOs lead and female directors support?In today’s spotlight is a groundbreaking paper:📘 “Gender Interactions Within the Family Firm”✍️ By Mario Daniele Amore, Orsola Garofalo, and Alessandro Minichilli,📚 Published in Management Science — one of the elite journals on the FT50 list, which means this isn’t just any research… it’s the kind of work that shapes boardrooms and business schools worldwide.Based on rich data from family-controlled firms in Italy, the study uncovers something powerful: female-led firms perform better when they have more women at the top. But — and here’s where it gets really interesting — this boost in performance weakens in areas plagued by gender prejudice and in very large firms. Context matters. Culture matters. And gender dynamics? They’re not just symbolic — they’re strategic.This isn’t just about equity. It’s about effectiveness. It’s about profit. And it’s about the nuanced, often invisible ways leadership chemistry fuels or foils success.So here’s our curious question for you:👉 What if the key to unlocking a firm's full potential isn’t just who leads — but who leads with them?A huge thank you to Mario Daniele Amore, Orsola Garofalo, and Alessandro Minichilli, and to INFORMS, the publisher of Management Science, for this compelling contribution to leadership and gender studies.If this episode got you thinking, be sure to hit subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, and check out our YouTube channel, Weekend Researcher. You can also find us on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast — because wherever you're questioning the status quo, we’ll be right there with you.Until next time… keep revising, keep resubmitting, and above all — keep wondering.ReferenceMario Daniele Amore, Orsola Garofalo, Alessandro Minichilli (2014) Gender Interactions Within the Family Firm. Management Science 60(5):1083-1097.https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2013.1824Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher