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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 BlackburnThis 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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53Issue number
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193-208Publication title
Journal of Small Business ManagementISSN
1540-627XExternal DOI
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WileyFile version
- Accepted version
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- eng
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2016-06-14Legacy creation date
2018-12-07Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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