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Entrepreneurial Identity: A Review and Research Agenda

Miruna Radu-Lefebvre¹; Vincent Lefebvre¹; Eliana Crosina²; Ulla Hytti³

¹ Audencia Business School, Nantes, France · ² Babson College, Babson Park, MA, USA · ³ University of Turku, Finland

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.

DOI

10.1177/10422587211013795

Volume

45 (6)

Pages

1550-1590

Language

en

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