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Becoming a founder: How founder role identity affects entrepreneurial transitions and persistence in founding
Ha Hoang,Javier Gimeno +1 more
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This paper developed a new theory that views organizational founding as involving a role transition and delineated how identity centrality and complexity affect individuals' ability to exit a work role in order to undertake founding activities.About:
This article is published in Journal of Business Venturing.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 262 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Identity (social science).read more
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Who will Lead and Who will Follow? a Social Process of Leadership Identity Construction in Organizations
D. Scott DeRue,Susan J. Ashford +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a leadership identity is coconstructed in organizations when individuals claim and grant leader and follower identities in their social interactions, and those identities become relationally recognized through reciprocal role adoption and collectively endorsed within the organizational context.
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Darwinians, Communitarians and Missionaries: The Role of Founder Identity in Entrepreneurship
Emmanuelle Fauchart,Marc Gruber +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the identities, behaviors, and actions of 49 firm founders in the sports-related equipment industry and showed how these identities systematically shape key decisions in the creation of new firms, thereby "imprinting" the startups with the founders' distinct self-concepts.
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Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation
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Pathways of Passion Identity Centrality, Passion, and Behavior Among Entrepreneurs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of passion among entrepreneurs and investigated the possible pathways through which entrepreneurial identities might influence passion, as well as the relationship between entrepreneurs' passion and behavior.
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Intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial intentions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on cross-cultural theory and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness project to develop a model for the transmission of entrepreneurial intentions within families in different cultures.
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
TL;DR: For instance, in the case of an individual in the presence of others, it can be seen as a form of involuntary expressive behavior as discussed by the authors, where the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself, and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.
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Positive psychology: An introduction.
TL;DR: The authors outline a framework for a science of positive psychology, point to gaps in the authors' knowledge, and predict that the next century will see a science and profession that will come to understand and build the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish.
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The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon previous research conducted in the different social science disciplines and applied fields of business to create a conceptual framework for the field of entrepreneurship, and predict a set of outcomes not explained or predicted by conceptual frameworks already in existence in other fields.
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Social Identity Theory and the Organization
Blake E. Ashforth,Fred A. Mael +1 more
TL;DR: This article argued that social identification is a perception of oneness with a group of persons, and social identification stems from the categorization of individuals, the distinctiveness and prestige of the group, the salience of outgroups, and the factors that traditionally are associated with group formation.