...Raluca Bunduchi; Catalina Crisan-Mitra; Sarah Yvonne Cooper Purpose This study adopts an identity perspective to investigate the cognitive and behavioral processes by which founders’ role identity shapes their firms’ responses to crisis through considering its function as an interpretative lens...

... into role identity and transition, it complements the discussion on work and non-work identities in retirement transition. The paper continues with the theoretical background and hypotheses, followed by methods, results, and discussion. Entrepreneurial exit to retirement combines two distinct...

... entrepreneur” role identity to form a collective shared belief and communities of practice around what it meant to act as an entrepreneurial group within their local corporate context and how it differentiated them from others. Members also clustered around the emergent collective entrepreneurial identity...