From the vast expance of flexible contracts to the corner o entrepreneurship. An entrepreneurial narration

Abstract

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises”. (Demonstene) In the specific study reported here, we targeted the situation of redundant workers in Italy. Following the review of statistical data 30 workers, who were made redundant by their companies, were interviewed. These individuals, who received a wage compensation by the Government for their total or partial loss of work, have attended the new SPAL (Active Labor Policies System) courses carried out by the Province of Rome. The aim of this study was to identify the extent to which the 30 individuals who were interviewed, who had good probabilities of leaving the labor market in adult age, already showed some of the key entrepreneurial characteristics. At the end of this study, these variables helped us to understand if and to what extend those redundant workers over 45 years of age had been inclined to start a new business and therefore how motivated they had been to embrace a new way of living and working, based on the development and launch of a new business. This work will present the results and the conclusions that emerged from the survey that was carried out between July 2012 and July 2013.

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• case study
• redundancy
• spal project