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Ageing and Entrepreneurship: Firm Creation and Performance among Older Individuals.

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Title/Author:	Ageing and Entrepreneurship: Firm Creation and Performance among Older Individuals./
Author:	Matos, Catarina Seco.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	184 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02, Section: C.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-02C.
Subject:	Dissertations & theses. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10972934
ISBN:	9781083491978

Ageing and Entrepreneurship: Firm Creation and Performance among Older Individuals.
Matos, Catarina Seco.

Ageing and Entrepreneurship: Firm Creation and Performance among Older Individuals. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 184 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02, Section: C.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), 2018.

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Senior entrepreneurship is a phenomenon of growing interest due to the current focus on active ageing. Little is still known about the determinants of senior entrepreneurship and less regarding its outcomes. This thesis provides insights about senior entrepreneurs and examines firm performance from subjective and objective levels. It is based on a multi-theory approach, from gerontology, psychology, to economic theories. Moreover, primary and secondary data was adopted: a questionnaire and a national database “Quadros de Pessoal”. The research has four main contributions. First, a framework of analysis is developed and applied to review senior entrepreneurship literature. A lack of evidence related to firm performance was found and more theory-based articles should be developed. Second, the Portuguese reality of senior entrepreneurship is examined and we find that Portugal faces an older population who exhibits a low willingness to engage in entrepreneurship, probably due to the levels of bureaucracy, low market dynamics, and a culture not oriented to performance. Third, we explore the impact of human capital traits on firm creation and of age on firm performance. Having entrepreneurial and paid employee experience is positively related to firm creation for older individuals. Furthermore, our results confirm the negative effect of being older on firm performance. Fourth, we examine business satisfaction among senior entrepreneurs – monetary and non-monetary are both important to explain business satisfaction and having industry experience positively affects business satisfaction, whereas having spent more than 12 months unemployed immediately before founding affects it negatively. The thesis leads to implications for policy makers and future research, namely on the appropriateness of considering self-perceived age (instead of chronological age) as an indicator influencing entrepreneurship. The negative effect of unemployment status before startup should be acknowledged and tackled by policy makers.

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520 $a O actual foco no envelhecimento activo torna o empreendedorismo senior um fenomeno de crescente relevancia. Pouco se conhece sobre as motivacoes do empreendedorismo senior e ainda menos sobre os seus efeitos. Esta tese produz conhecimento sobre os empreendedores seniores e analisa o seu desempenho empresarial do ponto de vista objectivo e subjectivo. Assenta em teorias de diferentes disciplinas, como a gerontologia, psicologia e economia. Adicionalmente, analisa dados primarios (um questionario) e secundarios (“Quadros de Pessoal”). A investigacao contempla quatro contributos principais. Primeiro, e desenvolvido e aplicado na revisao da literatura um esquema conceptual de analise do empreendedorismo senior. Verifica-se uma carencia de investigacao sobre o desempenho organizacional das empresas. O segundo contributo reflete a realidade Portuguesa do empreendedorismo senior, verificando-se que os seniores mostram uma reduzida vontade de enveredar pelo empreendedorismo, admitindo-se que as causas estejam relacionadas com os niveis de burocracia, a reduzida dinamica dos mercados e uma cultura pouco orientada para o desempenho. Em terceiro lugar foi analisado o impacto do capital humano na criacao de empresas, e da idade no desempenho organizacional. Concluiu-se que possuir experiencia empreendedora e profissional esta positivamente relacionada com a criacao de empresas por seniores. Adicionalmente, os resultados confirmam o efeito negativo da idade no desempenho organizacional. O ultimo contributo analisa o nivel de satisfacao do empreendedor para com a empresa. Verifica-se que aspetos monetarios e nao-monetarios sao, ambos, relevantes; assim como ter experiencia na industria afeta positivamente a satisfacao, ao passo que um periodo de desemprego superior a 12 meses, previo a criacao da empresa, afeta negativamente a satisfacao. Esta tese tem implicacoes no desenho de politicas publicas relacionadas com empreendedorismo e em futura investigacao. Aqui, admite-se que a utilizacao do conceito de idade percebida pelo proprio (em lugar da idade cronologica) possa ser um indicador util na adesao e desempenho do empreendedor. O efeito negativo do desemprego anterior a criacao da empresa deve ser reconhecido e abordado pelos decisores politicos.
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