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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and retirement / edited by Natalie Sappleton, Machester Metropolitan University, UK, and Fernando Lourenco, Institute for Tourism Studies, China.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Employment.
- Older people.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Retirement.
- Self-employed.
- Retirement income.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents a collection of nine studies which contribute to a more robust and richer understanding of entrepreneurship, self-employment and retirement in a diversity of settings, including the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore and the US, by drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data.
- Contents:
- 1. Retirement planning, financial literacy and small business owners / Tami Gurley-Calvez, Kandice A. Kapinos and Donald Bruce
- 2. One size does not fit all : uncovering older entrepreneur diversity through motivations, emotions and mentoring needs / Thomas Wainwright [and three others]
- 3. Entrepreneurship in a context of pending retirement : the lived experience of older entrepreneurs / Oliver Mallett and Robert Wapshott
- 4. Becoming an entrepreneur after retirement : results from a longitudinal study in the Netherlands / Hanna van Solinge
- 5. What drives post-retirement-age knowledge-based self-employment? An investigation of social, policy and individual factors / Ting Zhang
- 6. Entrepreneurship in mid-career / Margaret Patrickson, Alison Say and Leonie Hallo
- 7. Self-employment among Canadian seniors: trends and financial well-being / Sharanjit Uppal
- 8. Hybrid entrepreneurship during retirement : comparison of motives and aspirations / Erno T. Tornikoski, Anmari Viljamaa and Elina Varamaki
- 9. Self-employment around retirement age / Stefan Hochguertel.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137398376
- 113739837X
- OCLC:
- 908145337
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