The rise of the chancer entrepreneur: institutions and digital technology for entrepreneurship in uncertain times
Journal Article - December 1, 2025
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Working from home and performance pay: individual or collective payment schemes?
Journal Article - September 4, 2025
Hybrid entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs’ well-being: the moderating effect of role demands outside entrepreneurship
Journal Article - May 15, 2025
Dabbled vs. sustained self-employment: exploring educational returns within dynamic employment groups
Journal Article - June 1, 2024
Firm foundations: understanding why employers use flexible contracts
Report - April 15, 2024
The psychological strain of becoming self‑employed: a longitudinal investigation of honeymoon‑hangover effects
Journal Article - March 9, 2024
Entrepreneurship and democracy: a complex relationship
Journal Article - February 2, 2024
MIL-OSI Global: how looking after your willpower can help you reduce stress and stay productive, wherever you are working
Media - January 16, 2024
How looking after your willpower can help you reduce stress and stay productive, wherever you are working
Media - January 15, 2024
How looking after your willpower can help you reduce stress and stay productive, wherever you are working
Media - January 15, 2024
How looking after your willpower can help you reduce stress and stay productive, wherever you are working
Media - January 15, 2024
How looking after your willpower can help you reduce stress and stay productive, wherever you are working
Media - January 15, 2024
Does ‘being your own boss’ raise your chance of becoming someone else’s boss?
Journal Article - December 15, 2023
Labour mobility and earnings in the UK, 1992-2017
Journal Article - November 15, 2023
Health risks related to COVID-19, psychological distress and perceived productivity
Journal Article - July 12, 2023
What can monitoring our bank account cash flows say about our loyalty cards?
Journal Article - June 1, 2023
Big Five personality traits in the workplace: investigating personality differences between employees, supervisors, managers, and entrepreneurs
Journal Article - March 28, 2023
Home-based self-employment: combining personal, household and employment influences
Journal Article - June 15, 2022
Self-employment experience effects on well-being: a longitudinal study
Journal Article - May 1, 2022
Does the accumulation of self-employment experience impact life satisfaction?
Journal Article - November 15, 2021
Job satisfaction, expected retirement financial insufficiency, and the expected retirement age of the entrepreneurs: an attraction-selection-attrition theory perspective
Journal Article - September 20, 2021
Everybody hurts: self-employment, financial concerns, mental distress, and well-being during COVID-19
Journal Article - June 15, 2021
Business models, innovation and employees experiences in the workplace: challenges for the post-Covid-19 economy
Book Chapter, Productivity and the pandemic: challenges and insights from Covid-19, No. 10 - January 19, 2021
Implications and impacts of the crisis on micro businesses and their future
Book Chapter, Productivity and the pandemic: challenges and insights from Covid-19, No. 4 - January 19, 2021
Productivity and the pandemic: challenges and insights from Covid-19
Book - January 19, 2021
The effects of rural and urban areas on time allocated to self-employment: differences between men and women
Journal Article - August 29, 2020
Happy free willies? Investigating the relationship between freelancing and subjective well-being
Journal Article - August 15, 2020
How does being self-employed affect people’s health?
Book Chapter, Insights 2019-20: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study - January 15, 2020
The value of self-employment to ethnic minorities
Journal Article - October 15, 2019
Labour mobility and earnings in the UK, 1992-2016
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2019-09 - September 9, 2019
Self-employment and allostatic load
Journal Article - July 15, 2019
Contemporary ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK: a quantitative exploration of break out and entrepreneurial quality
Journal Article - June 1, 2019