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Achieving aging well through senior entrepreneurship: a three-country empirical study

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Erschienen in: Small Business Economics | Ausgabe 2/2022

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Seniors strive to achieve aging well by engaging in entrepreneurial activities subsequent to ceasing their organizational employment. While this is a common practice in many societies, scant research exists on what motivates seniors to engage in entrepreneurial activities once they end their formal employment. We adopt the self-determination theory (SDT) to investigate the effects of goal contents and motives on the well-being among seniors who launch their entrepreneurship journeys. Based on in-depth interviews with senior entrepreneurs in China, India, and Turkey, we contribute to extant knowledge by linking separate paradigms. These are as follows: goal contents and intrinsic motivation-driven entrepreneurship, management of inner and outer challenges, and achievement of the eventual outcome of aging well. We also investigate the culture-specific drivers of senior entrepreneurship in a comparative framework.

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Titel: Achieving aging well through senior entrepreneurship: a three-country empirical study
verfasst von: Ying Zhu
Ayse Collins
Zhixing Xu
Deepak Sardana
S. Tamer Cavusgil
Publikationsdatum: 12.11.2021
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Small Business Economics / Ausgabe 2/2022
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00564-8

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