Summary information

Study title

Lifestyle Entrepreneurship 2011-2014

Creator

Ikonen, Hanna-Mari (University of Tampere. School of Social Sciences and Humanities)

Study number / PID

FSD3145 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3145 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3145 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

This dataset contains six interviews with entrepreneurs providing services for dog hobbyists. Some of the businesses provided training services for e.g. agility and herding sports, others accommodation and catering services. The interviewees shared their experiences of starting a business, their work history, customer service practices, combining hobby and entrepreneurship, and work-life balance. The study was funded by the Academy of Finland. Background information included the date of the interview and the interviewee's profession, gender and age. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Social sciencesLeisure, tourism and sportEmployment

Business formationBusiness managementDogsEntrepreneurial valuesEntrepreneursLife stylesOccupationsSmall businessesWork-life balance

Data collection period

14/12/2011 - 25/05/2014

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Entrepreneurs providing training, accommodation and catering services for dog hobbyists

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Recording

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2018

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Ikonen, Hanna-Mari (2016) Producing Rural Spaces for Consumption: Proper States of Mind. Rural Society 25:3, 256-257. doi: 10.1080/10371656.2016.1256896
Ikonen, Hanna-Mari (2018) Letting Them Get Close: Entrepreneurial work and the New Normal. In Taylor, Stephanie & Luckman, Susan (eds.) The New Normal of Working Lives. Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstone.
Ikonen, Hanna-Mari (2017) Passionately Yours: Managing Emotional and Spatial Boundaries in Lifestyle-Based Self-Employment. Hospitality and Society 7:3, 263-280.
Ikonen, Hanna-Mari (2016) Sopiva tila, sopiva mielentila: maaseutupaikan tarjoaminen vierailijoille. Matkailututkimus 12:1, 44-58.
Ikonen, Hanna-Mari (2015) Itsensätyöllistämisen moneudesta: harrastuksesta työ, työstä elämäntapa. Alusta! 10.3.2015 http://alusta.uta.fi/artikkelit/2015/03/10/ itsensaetyoellistaemisen-moneudesta-harrastuksesta-tyoe-tyoestae-elaemaentapa.html