Jarna Heinonen is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Turku, School of Economics, Finland.Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen is Professor of Finnish History at the University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities, Finland.

• IntroductionJarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Gender, Economy and TimeKovalainen AnneSection 1: Heroic female entrepreneurs/heroism Is She That Special? The Long History of Business Women as Unlikely Heroic Entrepreneurs Anu Lahtinen The Mistress of the IronVeli Pekka Toropainen Female Manager in the Family Firm Hackman & Co in the Nineteenth-century Russia and FinlandUlla IjäsSection 2: Invisibility/Visibility (In)visibility in the Family BusinessHenrietta Nilson ‘All the Days of Their Lives’: The Lifecycle of a Family BusinessDeborah Simonton Statutory Invisibility: Urban Business Women Legal and Political Rights in the 18th Century FinlandJarkko Keskinen and Kirsi Vainio-KorhonenSection 3: Succession Daughters and Family Business SuccessionFrancesca Maria Cesaroni and Annalisa Sentuti He Suddenly Died: Family Firms, Unplanned Succession and GriefJarna Heinonen and Elisabet Ljunggren Conclusions and Moving Forward Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen

Jarna Heinonen is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Turku, School of Economics, Finland.Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen is Professor of Finnish History at the University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities, Finland.

• IntroductionJarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Gender, Economy and TimeKovalainen AnneSection 1: Heroic female entrepreneurs/heroism Is She That Special? The Long History of Business Women as Unlikely Heroic Entrepreneurs Anu Lahtinen The Mistress of the IronVeli Pekka Toropainen Female Manager in the Family Firm Hackman & Co in the Nineteenth-century Russia and FinlandUlla IjäsSection 2: Invisibility/Visibility (In)visibility in the Family BusinessHenrietta Nilson ‘All the Days of Their Lives’: The Lifecycle of a Family BusinessDeborah Simonton Statutory Invisibility: Urban Business Women Legal and Political Rights in the 18th Century FinlandJarkko Keskinen and Kirsi Vainio-KorhonenSection 3: Succession Daughters and Family Business SuccessionFrancesca Maria Cesaroni and Annalisa Sentuti He Suddenly Died: Family Firms, Unplanned Succession and GriefJarna Heinonen and Elisabet Ljunggren Conclusions and Moving Forward Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen

Jarna Heinonen is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Turku, School of Economics, Finland.Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen is Professor of Finnish History at the University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities, Finland.

• IntroductionJarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Gender, Economy and TimeKovalainen AnneSection 1: Heroic female entrepreneurs/heroism Is She That Special? The Long History of Business Women as Unlikely Heroic Entrepreneurs Anu Lahtinen The Mistress of the IronVeli Pekka Toropainen Female Manager in the Family Firm Hackman & Co in the Nineteenth-century Russia and FinlandUlla IjäsSection 2: Invisibility/Visibility (In)visibility in the Family BusinessHenrietta Nilson ‘All the Days of Their Lives’: The Lifecycle of a Family BusinessDeborah Simonton Statutory Invisibility: Urban Business Women Legal and Political Rights in the 18th Century FinlandJarkko Keskinen and Kirsi Vainio-KorhonenSection 3: Succession Daughters and Family Business SuccessionFrancesca Maria Cesaroni and Annalisa Sentuti He Suddenly Died: Family Firms, Unplanned Succession and GriefJarna Heinonen and Elisabet Ljunggren Conclusions and Moving Forward Jarna Heinonen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen