TY - CHAP

T1 - Entrepreneurship and Aging

AU - Funken, Rebecca

AU - Gielnik, Michael Marcus

PY - 2017/2/27

Y1 - 2017/2/27

N2 - The world’s population will age dramatically. Increased life expectancy, declining fertility rates, and the aging baby boom generation lead to a rising proportion of older people. By 2050, people aged 65 and above will constitute over 26 % of the population in developed countries (Cohen 2003). The increase in older people will affect how and to what extent older people remain active participants in the workforce. A growing number of older people will stay in their jobs or remain economically active through other means (Kautonen et al. 2011). An interesting aspect of this changing involvement of older people in the economy is the phenomenon of the older entrepreneur (de Bruin and Dupuis 2003), also known as gray entrepreneur, senior entrepreneur, third age entrepreneur, elder entrepreneur, and second career entrepreneur (Weber and Schaper 2004).

AB - The world’s population will age dramatically. Increased life expectancy, declining fertility rates, and the aging baby boom generation lead to a rising proportion of older people. By 2050, people aged 65 and above will constitute over 26 % of the population in developed countries (Cohen 2003). The increase in older people will affect how and to what extent older people remain active participants in the workforce. A growing number of older people will stay in their jobs or remain economically active through other means (Kautonen et al. 2011). An interesting aspect of this changing involvement of older people in the economy is the phenomenon of the older entrepreneur (de Bruin and Dupuis 2003), also known as gray entrepreneur, senior entrepreneur, third age entrepreneur, elder entrepreneur, and second career entrepreneur (Weber and Schaper 2004).

KW - Entrepreneurship

KW - Business Owner

KW - Entrepreneurial Intention

KW - Business Growth

KW - Retirement Fund

KW - Family Succession

KW - Business psychology

UR - https://www.amazon.de/Encyclopedia-Geropsychology-Nancy-Pachana/dp/9812870830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487687034&sr=8-1&keywords=Encyclopedia+of+Geropsychology.

UR - https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-981-287-082-7

U2 - 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_25-1

DO - 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_25-1

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-981-287-081-0

SN - 978-981-287-083-4

SN - 978-981-287-082-7

VL - 1

T3 - Springer reference

SP - 806

EP - 811

BT - Encyclopedia of Geropsychology

A2 - Pachana, Nancy A.

PB - Springer

CY - Singapore

ER -