Business transfer, a risk for the health of small business owners
This paper aims at understanding deeply the impact of business transfer on the health of small business owners. We adopt the framework of the psychosocial risks and analyze 45 cases of business transfer (from the owner’s perspective). First of all, results identify additional sources of stress both during and after the transfer process because of multiple and different roles to assume. They also specify specific consequences on health and bring to light three main categories of influencing factors (deteriorating or mitigating). We finally propose a model – based on the context, the process and the owner – to define standard areas of vigilance.