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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Retirement

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Natalie Sappleton

    1. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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  2. Fernando Lourenço

    1. Institute for Tourism Studies, China

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Pre- and Post-Retirement Self-Employment: Broadening Existing Horizons

    • Natalie Sappleton, Fernando Lourenço
    Pages 1-10

  3. Retirement Planning, Financial Literacy and Small Business Owners

    • Tami Gurley-Calvez, Kandice A. Kapinos, Donald Bruce
    Pages 11-41

  4. One Size Does Not Fit All: Uncovering Older Entrepreneur Diversity through Motivations, Emotions and Mentoring Needs

    • Thomas Wainwright, Ewald Kibler, Teemu Kautonen, Robert Blackburn
    Pages 42-66

  5. Entrepreneurship in a Context of Pending Retirement: The Lived Experience of Older Entrepreneurs

    • Oliver Mallett, Robert Wapshott
    Pages 67-89

  6. Becoming an Entrepreneur after Retirement: Results from a Longitudinal Study in the Netherlands

    • Hanna van Solinge
    Pages 90-111

  7. What Drives Post-Retirement-Age Knowledge-Based Self-Employment? An Investigation of Social, Policy and Individual Factors

    • Ting Zhang
    Pages 112-133

  8. Entrepreneurship in Mid-career

    • Margaret Patrickson, Alison Say, Leonie Hallo
    Pages 134-159

  9. Self-Employment among Canadian Seniors: Trends and Financial Well-Being

    • Sharanjit Uppal
    Pages 160-186

  10. Hybrid Entrepreneurship during Retirement: Comparison of Motives and Aspirations

    • Erno T. Tornikoski, Anmari Viljamaa, Elina Varamäki
    Pages 187-208

  11. Self-Employment around Retirement Age

    • Stefan Hochguertel
    Pages 209-258

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 259-261
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“The main part of the book contains nine chapters which focus on the experiences of pre-retirement and post-retirement entrepreneurs in a number of developed countries … . will be particularly valuable to early-stage researchers, experienced academics, policy-makers and anyone interested in advancing the field to yield new insights into the retirement process in the 21st century.” (Ewa Sadurska-Duffy, Work, employment and society, Vol. 30 (6), 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Natalie Sappleton

  • Institute for Tourism Studies, China

    Fernando Lourenço

About the editors

Natalie Sappleton is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK. Her research interests are in the intersections between social networks, gender segregation and gender stereotyping in the context of entrepreneurship. Research programmes she has been involved in include Women Audio Visual Engineers (WAVE), Women in North West Engineering and numerous investigations into sex discrimination at the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Fernando Lourenço, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Tourism Studies (Macau) teaching business and management, entrepreneurship and design courses. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Manchester Metropolitan University on an award-winning course. In 2009 he was awarded the National Enterprise Educators Award (UK). He has published research papers in the International Small Business Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Business Ethics: A European Review, Gender in Management and International Review of Entrepreneurship.

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