{
  "title": "Women's leadership in the canton of Ticino: how can women be considered for succession before a crisis?",
  "url": "https://shr.swiss/blog/leadership-au-feminin-tessin-successions-avant-crise-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-02",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Understanding women's access to leadership requires more than counting appointments. It also requires examining the circumstances in which women become plausible candidates.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Women in Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lugano",
    "region": "Tessin",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes: appointments can be precarious",
      "point": "Michelle K."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A mechanism: crisis changes the preferred leadership profile",
      "point": "Susanne Bruckmüller and Nyla R."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion: avoid difficult positions",
      "point": "Concluding that women should refuse difficult successions would go too far."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limits: neither a diagnosis of Ticino nor a single explanation",
      "point": "An analysis of appointments in listed companies and experimental selection studies do not directly describe succession in Ticino's family SMEs."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lugano",
      "point": "In a hypothetical teaching case for the “Women's Leadership” programme, a family-owned trading SME in Lugano prepares its leadership succession before commercial difficulties arise."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Haslam",
      "year": "2005",
      "source": "British Journal of Management"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Branscombe",
      "year": "2010",
      "source": "British Journal of Social Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 439,
  "image": "https://shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Women-In-Leadership-Lugano-leadership-au-feminin-tessin-successions-avant-crise-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "en": "https://shr.swiss/blog/leadership-au-feminin-tessin-successions-avant-crise-en",
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    "it": "https://shr.swiss/blog/leadership-au-feminin-tessin-successions-avant-crise-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://shr.swiss/formation-leadership-au-feminin-lugano",
    "city": "https://shr.swiss/formations-ville/lugano",
    "blog": "https://shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}