Entrepreneurial Identity: A Review and Research Agenda

Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Vincent Lefebvre, Eliana Crosina and Ulla Hytti

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2021, vol. 45, issue 6, 1550-1590

Abstract: Over the past three decades, research on entrepreneurial identity (EI) has grown particularly rapidly, yet in seemingly disparate directions. To lend structure to this fragmented field of inquiry, our systematic integrative review maps and integrates EI research based on antecedents, content, outcomes as well as their relationships. In so doing, we reveal that the field revolves around two primary conceptualizations of EI as Property or Process . We suggest future avenues for examining the interplay between EI and temporal, socio-cognitive, and spatial contexts, and for investigating and theorizing overlooked mechanisms of reconstructing and losing EI.

Keywords: entrepreneurial identity; systematic integrative review; identity theories (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/10422587211013795

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