On the motivational drivers of gray entrepreneurship: An exploratory study

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 358-365

  Harms, Rainer ^a   Luck, Florian ^b   Kraus, Sascha ^b   Walsh, Steven ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gray entrepreneur; Motivation; Push pull; Senior entrepreneurship; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOTIVATION;

ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION; GRAY ENTREPRENEUR; PUSH/PULL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SENIOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY-BASED INNOVATIONS; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

AGING POPULATION; ECONOMIC THEORY; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ENTREPRENEUR; LABOR SUPPLY; SELF EMPLOYMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84921329685     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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