Is older entrepreneurship being silenced? A policy analysis of Finnish government programmes

Paula Kupiainen, Katri Komulainen, Päivi Eriksson and Hannu Räty

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2023, vol. 35, issue 9-10, 746-761

Abstract: This post-structural policy analysis examines Finnish government programmes through the lens of neoliberal governmentality and the concepts of the entrepreneurial self and active ageing. In the context of Finland, as a Nordic welfare state in transition to a competition-state model, this study examines how government programmes construct an ageing workforce, especially regarding older entrepreneurship. The results suggest that older people are not only constructed as a difficult-to-employ workforce but also as passive and vulnerable care recipients. Furthermore, as a construction, older entrepreneurship is absent from the studied documents, suggesting that the older entrepreneurship is a marginalized group that has been silenced. This article increases knowledge about this silencing in terms of governmentality and provides perspectives via which to develop a more inclusive entrepreneurship policy.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2225035

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