The role of retirement intention in entrepreneurial firm exit

Leader development across the lifespan: A dynamic experiences-grounded approach

“…After 60 years old, work activities among senior people begin to decrease and many people retire from their positions at work (Coile, 2018). Research has shown that retirement intentions are dependent on the attractiveness of the post-retirement outcomes, work-role attachment, and perceived pressures in the workplace (Soleimanof, Morris, & Syed, 2015). Retirees start to anticipate their post-retirement lives, and make postretirement decisions as to the nature of their work such as continuing in their careers, taking up a new and different job, doing volunteer work, doing civic engagement work, and so on (Santrock, 2016;Shea & Haasen, 2006).…”

Retirement intention of older workers: The influences of high‐involvement work practices, individual characteristics, and economic environment

“…We examine retirement intention as the dependent variable to reflect older workers’ retirement decisions. Retirement intention refers to older workers’ willingness to reduce their mental, emotional, and behavioral involvement in their existing work arrangements, their careers, or the total workforce in the near future (Kanfer et al., 2013; Soleimanof et al., 2015). On this definition, retirement may indicate decreased motivation to work or cessation of all work activities (Kanfer et al., 2013).…”

Entrepreneurs’ Exit Strategy Intentions and Their Final Exit Paths

“…The theory of planned behavior is primarily used in the field of social psychology. Entrepreneurship scholars also use the theory of planned behavior as a framework in their studies (e.g., Carsrud and Brännback 2011;Esfandiar et al 2019;Fayolle and Liñán 2014;Krueger 2009;Soleimanof et al 2016;Lee et al 2011;Liñán and Chen, 2009). The theory has been used to explore the influence of entrepreneurship education programs on students' intention to start a business (Sánchez 2013) and to understand proactive environmental strategies in family firms (Sharma and K Sharma 2011).…”

“…Moreover, it has been employed to identify factors that drive young researchers to set up ventures based on their research results (Feola et al 2019). Scholars utilize the theory of planned behavior to investigate the role of resilience and its effect on entrepreneurial intentions (González-López et al 2019), to understand the behavior of family firm leaders (Chua et al 2003), to link founders' retirement intentions to firm exits (Soleimanof et al 2016), and to explore the influence of prior family business exposure on an individual (Carr and Sequeira 2007). These studies suggest that the theory of planned behavior is well fitted for research in entrepreneurship, especially to understand the link between entrepreneurs' exit intentions and their actual exit paths.…”