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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Entrepreneurial passions and identities in different contexts: a comparison between high-tech and social entrepreneurs |
Author: | Yitshaki, R. Kropp, F. |
Citation: | Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2016; 28(3-4):206-233 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 0898-5626 1464-5114 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ronit, Yitshaki and Fredric, Kropp |
Abstract: | This study examines entrepreneurial passion and components of entrepreneurial identity – sameness, otherness, and identity centrality and salience – in two different contexts, high-tech and social entrepreneurship. Based on life story interviews of 45 high-tech entrepreneurs (HTE) and social entrepreneurs (SEs), passion and identities are linked for each group but evolve differently. For HTEs, passion is composed of a strong challenge to lead a meaningful activity and to leave a ‘fingerprint’. SE passion is characterized more in terms of enthusiasm and excitement and a desire to make a mark. HTEs’ identities are central to their self-concept while SEs’ identities can be more salient than central. SE identities are more synchronized than those of HTEs. For HTEs, otherness is dominant in their self-concept; however, they also maintain a concept of sameness. The findings of this study expand the literature by showing that passion is a dynamic motivational construct that is associated with entrepreneurs’ self-concept of their role identities. The interrelations between entrepreneurial passion and self-concepts of role identities are perceived differently among entrepreneurs who operate in different contexts. In addition, this study also expands the literature on entrepreneurial identities and affect. |
Keywords: | Entrepreneurial identities; entrepreneurial passion; self-concept; affect; high-tech entrepreneurs; social entrepreneurs |
Rights: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, Trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
DOI: | 10.1080/08985626.2016.1155743 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2016.1155743 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Business School publications |
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