). Because the sample we used for that study did not include many female CEOs, our present study focuses on women in leadership … understand the pathway to leadership in family firms that women travel. Based on interviews with an international sample of women … firms (e.g. Dumas, 1998; Sharma, 2004). Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002) describe the varying roles that women …

study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … assumptions about women's and men's approach to leadership, suggests there are some characteristic ways women leaders learn FCB …In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled …

firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women … adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such roles. Our research aims to examine the career progression of women … and perhaps managing these paradoxes took them on a learning journey to leadership in which they progressively learnt …

, perceived leadership style, experienced frustration and optimism, organization-based self-esteem and organizational commitment … of gender combination and leadership style on the emotions, self-esteem and commitment consequence variables. Further … commitment. The results showed that gender combination was independent of leadership style and had a direct impact on …