de Jager, W.Kelliher, ClarePeters, P.Bloome, R.Sakamoto, Y.2017-03-102017-03-102016-10-04de Jager W, Kelliher C, et al., Fit for Self-Employment? An extended person-environment fit approach to understand the work-life interface of self-employed workers, Journal of Management and Organization, Volume 22, Issue 6, pp. 797–816.1833-3672https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2016.41http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11594The recent growth in self-employment has sparked scholarly interest in why individuals choose and remain in self-employment. Yet, relatively little is known about how self-employed workers enact their daily lives and what this means for their work–life interface. Self-employment is often presented as a means to enhance life choice and as enabling work and nonwork activities to be combined more satisfactorily. However, extant evidence on how self-employment is experienced is mixed, with some studies reporting long and irregular working hours and high levels of stress. Furthermore, the way in which self-employment is experienced may be influenced by national context – economic, institutional and cultural factors. In this paper, we develop a multi-level model which extends existing work on the Person–Environment Fit by incorporating factors relevant to self-employment. The model assists us to understand how contextual factors create both opportunities and tensions which impact the work–life interface of self-employed workers.enAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/cross-nationalself-employedPerson–Environment Fitworklife balanceArticle15513340