... Licensed re-use rights only Entrepreneurship Self-employment Suicide Self-injury Mental health Depression Entrepreneurship is championed as a pathway to independence, self-fulfilment, and economic opportunity, leading to increased levels of well-being (Brieger et al., 2020...

... at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence . Self-employment Business owner Solo entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship Fairness Justice Stakeholders Well-being Health Satisfaction Latent profile analysis Sweden Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd 2019-01311 http...

...Vivek G. Nair; Leena Chatterjee; Navya Bagga Purpose The paper aims to provide a career perspective on self-employment (SE) by focusing on how engaging in SE shapes the career experiences of MBA graduates in a distinct cultural and institutional context. Design/methodology/approach We...

...Lidia Kritskaya Lindelid; Sujith Nair Purpose Wage employees enter self-employment either directly or in a staged manner and may subsequently undertake multiple stints at self-employment. Extant research on the relationship between entry modes and the persistence and outcomes of self-employment...

... engagement of the self-employed is scarce. In addition, phenomena like “necessity self-employment” and “economically dependent self-employment” raise concerns about the potential eudaimonic well-being outcomes of these self-employed. In this study, it was therefore investigated to what extent necessity self...

... other than financial may be prioritised. Design/methodology/approach The research draws from a larger qualitative study of self-employment and poverty in which half the sample (21 individuals) identified as experiencing disability or poor health. Semi-structured interviews were conducted...

... intentions. The survey took place in Jordan, sampling Jordanian citizens and Syrian refugees. A nonprobability sampling technique was used to collect the data. Findings The results show that net desirability for self-employment, tolerance for risk and self-efficacy are related to entrepreneurial...

... Licensed re-use rights only Dependent self-employment thus allows employers to circumvent collective agreements, evade employment tax, labour laws and other employer liabilities that would otherwise apply (Román et al., 2011). Indeed, liberalisation and de-regulation have led...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The purpose of this paper is to test a model predicting self-employment (SE) personal growth (learning opportunities and creativity) and SE exit intentions (exiting to work for someone else and exit likelihood) based on the job demands...

... identities (Wehrle et al., 2018). Labour market disadvantage theory (Light, 1979) and the related blocked mobility hypothesis (Raijman and Tienda, 2003) posit that individuals facing such job market barriers are likely to turn to self-employment. This is considered to be the situation for many...

... of low tech, rural entrepreneurs, considering their context. Self-employment Rural Entrepreneurship Knowledge transfer Rural entrepreneurship is influenced by territorial characteristics, such as natural resources and landscapes, but also social capital and networks and the dynamics...

...Eva Zikou; Nikos Varsakelis; Aikaterini K. Sarri Entrepreneurs Self-employment Development Policy R11 M13 There is a growing literature indicating the significant role of entrepreneurship in the national and regional development and on the restructuring of the regional...

... and personal responsibility. The ease of doing business in a country was positively related to the WLB of self-employed workers. Social implications For some workers self-employment might be a way to combine work and responsibilities in other life domains, but this does not seem to be valid in all cases...

..., 2000), risk-oriented behavior (Quinlan et al., 2006), and HIV risk understanding to name a few (Townsend et al., 2006), has been well-cited and employed by researchers studying entrepreneurial activity and self-employment intentions (Krueger and Carsrud, 1993 ; McGee et al...

... that the influence that family factors have on an individual’s choice of company type is strong; however, it varies depending on intentions transferred within the family. Originality/value – The authors divide self-employment into three distinct parts based on the company type, which enables a sophisticated...

...” perspective which depicts those participating in informal self-employment/entrepreneurship as doing so out of necessity and as a last resort due to few other choices being available to them (Copisarow, 2004 ; Llanes and Barbour, 2007). On the other hand, there is an “exit” perspective which depicts them...

...-time, part-time or unemployed and have known aspirations to either employment or self-employment. The Classification and Ranking Belief Simplex (CaRBS) technique is employed in the classification analyses undertaken, which offers an uncertain reasoning based visual approach to the exposition...

... the period 1999‐2001. Findings It was found that 86 per cent state only a single reason for self‐employment. Response patterns differ significantly between men and women. Independence is the most commonly cited motivation but 22 per cent of women cite family commitments. “Push” motivations may account...

...Lei Wang; Leonel Prieto; Kim T. Hinrichs; Homero Aguirre Milling Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative levels of multiple individual and environmental factors that influence self‐employment motivation in China, Mexico, and the USA and the effect of each factor on motivation...