Dynamics of Late-Career Entrepreneurial Intentions in Pakistan – Individual and Synergistic Application of Various Capital Resources and Fear of Failure

Hanif Muhammad Shehzad (), Yunfei Shao (), Hanif Muhammad Imran and Junaid Danish ()
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Hanif Muhammad Shehzad: UCP Business School, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Yunfei Shao: School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Hanif Muhammad Imran: Department of Business Studies, University of Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Junaid Danish: Bahria Business School, Bahria university Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 2023, vol. 13, issue 2, 439-501

Abstract: Although prior research on late-career entrepreneurship has explored the effects of financial, human, and social capital on the intentions to engage in entrepreneurial activity within the domains of a developed economy, little research has investigated this scholarship in the context of a push perspective within a developing economy. This study endeavors to meet this gap by investigating the effects of financial, social, and human capital and the personal dispositional traits on the entrepreneurial intentions among early retirees in the ICT sector of Pakistan. Based on the collected data from the web-based questionnaire and personally administered surveys and interviews from 345 respondents who face a survival challenge in the aftermath of a job loss, we make use of hierarchical logistic regression to periodically explore the independent and combined effects of the financial, social and human capital and the impact of a stable dispositional trait of fear of failure on the entrepreneurial intention. Being one of the foremost studies to address the late-career entrepreneurship phenomenon in a developing economy, this study has to offer notable contributions to entrepreneurship literature. Consistent with prior research, we observe support for the individual influence of various elements of financial, social, and human capital and the fear of failure on the intentions to engage in an entrepreneurial career. Results also demonstrate considerable evidence for the interaction effects among financial, human, and social capital as well as among different measures of financial capital, human capital, and the fear of failure. Discussion about the results is furnished followed by limitations and future research implications.

Keywords: late-career push entrepreneurship; resource-based view; synergistic application; entrepreneurial intention; developing economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1515/erj-2018-0062

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