Li, X., Yu, H. orcid.org/0000-0002-1492-4250, Huang, Q. et al. (1 more author) (2025) When may age not be a barrier to entrepreneurial entry of senior people? The role of individual geographical mobility experience and village democratic governance in rural areas in emerging economies. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. ISSN 0898-5626
Abstract
This paper contributes to the senior entrepreneurship and rural entrepreneurship literature by developing a contingency view on the likelihood of entrepreneurial entry by senior individuals in rural areas in emerging economies. Drawing on utility maximization theory, we propose that multi-level factors and their joint effects help older individuals overcome barriers to entrepreneurial entry. Using data from the Chinese Labour-force Dynamics Surveys (CLDS), comprising 8,692 individual-year observations in 209 villages in 2012, 2014 and 2016, our results reveal that individual geographical mobility experience attenuates the negative effect of older age on entrepreneurial entry in rural areas. Although village democratic governance does not independently mitigate this negative effect, its interaction with individual geographical mobility experience does. Our research has theoretical and policy implications for understanding senior entrepreneurial entry in rural areas of emerging markets and addressing the challenges posed by an ageing society.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Entrepreneurial entry; rural entrepreneurship; senior entrepreneurship; village democratic governance; mobility experience; utility maximization theory |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2025 10:31 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2025 09:57 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/08985626.2025.2452283 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:221777 |