중년기 경력단절 창업여성의 진로전환 경험에 대한 근거이론적 분석 = A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of the Career Transition Experience of Mid-life Career-interrupted Start-up Women

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The purpose of this study is to deeply analyze the career transition experience and the essence of the entrepreneurial process of women who experienced a career break in middle age, to understand the career transition experience of women who experienced a career break in middle age, and to present a theoretical framework for the entrepreneurial settlement process. The research participants were 17 women who got a job in middle age after a career break or started a business through a career change during their career. Based on this, data were collected through in-depth interviews, and a qualitative analysis was conducted by applying the grounded theory research method proposed by Strauss and Corbin (2008, 2001). The results are as follows. First, 220 concepts, 58 subcategories, and 23 categories were derived. Second, the paradigm of the entrepreneurship process through the career transition experience of middle-aged women with a career gap was derived by setting the exhaustion of work and career identity due to decreased autonomy in uncertain jobs, and the limitations of the immediate jobs and job roles in middle age as the causal situations, and setting the employment barriers after the career gap, re-employment attempts, and job changes in middle age as the contextual situations, setting entrepreneurial efficacy and job maintenance awareness as the mediating conditions of middle-aged entrepreneurial transition, and setting entrepreneurial challenges as actions/interactions in the process of executing career transition behaviors, and setting the process of realizing entrepreneurial vision and business vision through career development. Third, the entrepreneurial decision-making process model through the career transition experience of middle-aged female entrepreneurs with a career gap was implemented in six stages: ‘career gap and job maintenance stage’, ‘mid-aged career limitation recognition stage’, ‘subjective career and independent life accompanying stage’, ‘career transition and entrepreneurship execution stage’, ‘entrepreneurial career capacity building stage’, and ‘entrepreneurial career growth and change stage’. Fourth, the core category through the story outline was found to be ‘career development and career development efforts and entrepreneurship tasks for overcoming adversity through career transition experience’. Through each category of the core category and paradigm model, the career transition experience and entrepreneurship competency performance in the entrepreneurship process of middle-aged female entrepreneurs were classified into three entrepreneurship types: entrepreneurship career development expansion type, entrepreneurship career meaning pursuit type, and entrepreneurship career stability maintenance type. This study presented what middle-aged start-up women with career interruptions actually experience in the entrepreneurship process through career transition experience. The significance of this study lies in revealing the entrepreneurship path of middle-aged women who recognize entrepreneurial efficacy by utilizing their strengths and competencies through career transition and work life after career interruption and pursue career development through the process of entrepreneurial challenge and settlement. Based on these results, the career transition experience and entrepreneurship path of middle-aged women who start a business after career interruption were discussed, and suggestions for the significance of this study and follow-up research were made.