Home-based self-employment: combining personal, household and employment influences
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Daniel, E. and Owen, R. 2022. Home-based self-employment: combining personal, household and employment influences. Journal of Enterprising Culture. 30 (02), pp. 123-160. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218495822500054
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Title | Home-based self-employment: combining personal, household and employment influences |
Authors | Daniel, E. and Owen, R. |
Abstract | Despite the significant economic, innovative and social contributions of home-based self-employment, it is an under-researched and under-theorised area. We address this gap by drawing from established entrepreneurial theory to propose and validate a more complete theoretical model that combines personal, household and employment influences. We validate our proposed model by drawing on quantitative data from a large-scale, longitudinal, UK-based, social studies dataset. Our validated model demonstrates how and why antecedent and current household and employment factors, but not personal factors, associated with being home-based interact and provide constitutive affordances that result in a setting for self-employment that is unique in more fundamental ways than simply the home location of the business. Despite being responsible for some of the world’s most innovative and successful businesses, home-based businesses are often denigrated as lacking ambition or growth potential. The results of our analysis vindicate the choices of the home-based self-employed, by demonstrating that basing a business in the home is a rational choice based on an intersection of household and employment characteristics. The data used in this study predates the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is expected that home-based self-employment will grow significantly following the pandemic in response to increasing acceptance of home-working. It therefore behoves entrepreneurship scholars to have a robust understanding of this previously overlooked type of self-employment if we are to be able to provide guidance to policymakers and self-employment support services. |
Research Group | Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR) |
Publisher | World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd |
Journal | Journal of Enterprising Culture |
ISSN | 0218-4958 |
Electronic | 1793-6330 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 31 May 2022 |
30 Jun 2022 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 09 Jun 2022 |
Accepted | 26 Oct 2021 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | Accepted author manuscript. Electronic version of an article published as Journal of Enterprising Culture, Vol. 30, No. 02, pp. 123-160 (2022) Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218495822500054 © copyright 2022 World Scientific Publishing Company http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jec |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218495822500054 |
Language | English |
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