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100 1 0 _ade Freyman, Julien
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700 1 0 _a Boussaguet, Sonia
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700 1 0 _a Bah, Thierno
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245 0 0 _aThe Future of SME Sellers: A Typology According to Reinvestment Strategies
260 _c2016.
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520 _aThis article investigates the future of SME sellers. It builds upon the rare work on entrepreneurial exit (by selling to an outsider). Based on the theoretical concept of end-of-career feelings, defined as the acceptance of life changes (Marbot 2006), and on a re-examination of secondary data from fifty-seven life stories of French sellers, our results show above all that end-of-career feelings genuinely affect these entrepreneurs/small business owners. They also reveal four types of sellers with different reinvestment strategies and recovery levers. We propose a fifth risk profile in addition to the typology. Finally, we discuss the emergence, evolution, or possible absence of reinvestment strategies.
690 _aSME transfer
690 _aend-of-career feelings
690 _areinvestment strategy
690 _aentrepreneurial exit
690 _atypology
786 0 _nRevue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship | 15 | 3 | 2016-12-12 | p. 63-86 | 1766-2524
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-review-of-entrepreneurship-2016-3-page-63?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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