Starting up, not slowing down: Social entrepreneurial intentions in later working-life
| Autor: | Zeineb Djebali, MariaLaura Di Domenico, Mark NK Saunders |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship. 41:239-268 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2870 0266-2426 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/02662426221093570 |
| Popis: | Despite a growing literature on entrepreneurial intentions, there remain gaps in the understanding of how these are affected by the age of later working-life social entrepreneurs. This research examined the ‘over-50s’ social entrepreneur understandings of age as an antecedent of their social entrepreneurial intentions. In-depth interviews were conducted with 28 UK-based social entrepreneurs. Our findings demonstrate that social entrepreneurial intentions in later working-life are influenced by an interplay of necessity, fulfilment and experienced later life, age being perceived as a positive construct rather than as a barrier. Our research contributes to the social entrepreneurship and small business literature by enhancing and advancing current knowledge and theorisation of the social entrepreneurial intentions of the over-50s. We reveal first, how social entrepreneurs make sense of their older age and the influence of their social entrepreneurial intentions; and second, how these social entrepreneurial intentions are formed by the intertwining of necessity, fulfilment and experienced later life. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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