In this paper, based on the findings of the two case-studies addressing the issues of succession, participation, and exclusion of women in family businesses, we will explore how the concept of 'gender' informs representations and practices, which reflect social attitudes - or the construction thereof - towards the 'division of labor' between men and women in the world of entrepreneurship.
These sites also inform our representations in the culture and news at large by plugging us in to how information is processed and spread.
Religious representations also informed many informants' accounts of how they responded to HIV/AIDS.
Belgium and human rights groups including Amnesty International said the secrecy over the report was depriving them of a chance to make informed and "meaningful" representations to Mr Straw, or possibly challenge him in the courts.
Dr Peter Byrne, director of public education for the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) believes that attitudes towards ECT are informed by such cultural representations: "Only one mainstream film, Fear Strikes Out, (1959) portrays it positively," he says.
Family entrepreneurship in both academic and laymen discourse and reasoning seems to float across the interstices of a dualistic pattern informed by perceptions and representations of gender as presented in Table 1.
Given a combination of the resources we had available and our positioning as an academic institution, the principal focus of the work was to use research and informed debate to challenge representations of sexuality and rights in the public domain.
By Note Verbale of June 1995, FAO informed the Italian Permanent Representation of the impossibility of accepting such a request due to both legal and financial considerations.
Health risk information (internal or environmental) informs the cognitive representation of and/or the emotions associated with a health threat, which in turn activates a coping plan, followed by an appraisal of the coping plan [ 18].
And because it grounds expressive capacity on the notion of human freedom, it demands that artistic representation be strongly informed by ethical and political concerns.
