Overview
Presents an interdisciplinary bouquet of research on elderly or senior entrepreneurship
Features important advancements in economic gerontology in the context of entrepreneurship
Explores motivation, cognition, and behavioral challenges to seniors' entrepreneurship behavior
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Senior Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Consideration and Future Researches
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Senior Entrepreneurs: Are They Really Different?
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Elderly Entrepreneur in Different Context
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Keywords
- Senior entrepreneurship
- Seniorpreneurs
- Entrepreneurship in ageing economies
- Economic gerontology
- Grey Entrepreneurs
- Motivations of senior entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurial cognition
- Heterogeneous boomer entrepreneurs
- Third-age entrepreneurs
- Innovativeness of elderly entrepreneurs
- Gender diversity in senior entrepreneurship
About this book
This handbook introduces readers to the concept of elderly entrepreneurship, and analyzes key issues concerning individuals and institutions. In addition, it presents theoretical and empirical studies exploring the reasons why elderly persons choose to pursue entrepreneurship, despite their advanced age. To investigate this comparatively new entrepreneurial phenomenon, the contributors address psychological, sociological and gerontological aspects, and share unique interdisciplinary insights. The book’s chapters are methodologically diverse, and the scale of analysis ranges from individual cases to country-level patterns. At a time when the world’s major economies are facing a demographic challenge due to ageing populations, elderly entrepreneurship may provide new economic opportunities and motivate more inclusive policymaking.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Adnane Maalaoui is the head of the entrepreneurship programs at IPAG Business School. His research mainly focuses on issues of entrepreneurship, and in particular on disadvantaged entrepreneurs (such as elderly, immigrant, and disabled entrepreneurs). He works on topics such as entrepreneurial intention and the cognitive approach to entrepreneurship. He mainly applies those questions to cases of diversity. Adnane Maalaoui is the author of more than twenty articles published in academic journals; he has also written articles published in professional journals and in edited books. Adnane is the author of a series of French language MOOCs on entrepreneurship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Research on Elderly Entrepreneurship
Editors: Adnane Maâlaoui
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13334-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13333-7Published: 08 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13336-8Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13334-4Published: 26 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 236
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Demography, Economic Psychology