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Can Social Exclusion Against “Older Entrepreneurs” Be Managed?

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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:17 authored by Ewald Kibler, Thomas Wainwright, Teemu Kautonen, Robert Blackburn
This paper investigates how sources of social exclusion and support emerge within an “older” entrepreneur's immediate environment, and how this affects the development of their small business. Based on 22 in-depth interviews in London, United Kingdom, we suggest how older entrepreneurs with different backgrounds are able to manage social exclusion, and identify four coping strategies—passive negotiation, active negotiation, modification, and avoidance. We argue that, if “older entrepreneurship” (people starting a business aged 50 or older) is to flourish, both entrepreneurs and support initiatives need to become sensitive to the diversity of sources of discrimination and strategies to manage them.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

53

Issue number

S1

Page range

193-208

Publication title

Journal of Small Business Management

ISSN

1540-627X

Publisher

Wiley

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-06-14

Legacy creation date

2018-12-07

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Lord Ashcroft International Business School (until September 2018)

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