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Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs (2015)
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Mallett, O., & Wapshott, R. (2015). Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs. Work, Employment and Society, 29(2), 250-266. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014546666

The enterprise culture is a pervasive socio-historical discourse. This article adopts a narrative identity work approach to explore how individuals may exert agency to make sense of and negotiate with the structuring features of such discourses. Olde... Read More about Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs.