Home-Based Entrepreneurship in the Information Age

Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses: an exploratory study

“…Whilst we did not seek to generate a stratified sample reflecting the incidence of male or female ownership of home-based businesses, our preponderance of male informants challenges the popular notion that home-based businesses are more often run by females, leading to them being termed as 'kitchen-table' or 'pink collar' businesses (Sulaiman et al, 2009). Consistent with previous studies that have found online entrepreneurs tend to be well-educated (Deschamps et al, 1998), 77% of our sample had a first or higher degree (Table 3). The average age of the informants was 39 years, with a minimum age of 24 years and maximum age of 62 years.…”

“…The average age of the informants was 39 years, with a minimum age of 24 years and maximum age of 62 years. This wide spread in ages is consistent with previous studies of online entrepreneurs that have found that they have a wide spread in ages similar to that found in other types of entrepreneur (Deschamps et al, 1998). Whilst the majority of the interviewees (41%) had a British passport, a similar proportion (36%) were on entrepreneur visas or had applied for one, suggesting this is an important means of attracting entrepreneurs to the UK.…”

The Role of Entrepreneur-Venture Fit in Online Home-Based Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Consistent with these findings on family status, online home-based entrepreneurs were less likely to have children than offline home-based entrepreneurs (Deschamps et al, 1998) or non-entrepreneurs (Fairlie, 2006). These findings are surprising, given many studies highlight the attraction of home-based businesses is to allow individuals to undertake caring responsibilities for children alongside their work.…”

“…Other studies find that online home-based businesses do not necessarily reduce work-family conflict (Christensen, 1987;Laegran, 2008;. These provide some explanation of Deschamps et al's (1998) finding that online home-based entrepreneurs were more likely to be single or more likely to be divorced than traditional home-based entrepreneurs, suggesting that operating an online home-based business may be less conducive to a happy home-life and marriage than other forms of home-based business.…”

“…Kirkpatrick, 2011). Finally, a number of scholars have recognised the specific opportunities and challenges offered by online home-based businesses (Deschamps et al, 1998;Fairlie, 2006;Kalyanaraman, 2016) and hence there is now a critical mass of existing, but highly fragmented studies.…”