Students’ Entrepreneurial Identity Construction: Role and Social Identity Influences

Weihui Mei and Lorraine Pe Symaco

SAGE Open, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 21582440221089961

Abstract: Identity directly impacts how university students behave and make decisions in entrepreneurial practice. Therefore, it is significant to explore the factors influencing the identity construction of student-entrepreneurs to understand how processes are internalized by students, which may then affect their entrepreneurial identity. This article interrogates the formation and transition of the entrepreneurial identity of student-entrepreneurs in a Chinese research university. This paper argues that identity formation is a dynamic and nonlinear process where both role and social identities are involved in its development. Factors that would promote the desired identity formation would include, among others, a tolerant atmosphere across universities, integrating identity issues into the process of entrepreneurship education, and providing university-wide support for entrepreneurship which will be beneficial to improving and sustaining entrepreneurial identity among students.

Keywords: entrepreneurial identity; role identity; social identity; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/21582440221089961

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