...Márcia Maria Garçon Purpose This study aims to conceptualize female authentic entrepreneurial identity as a collective and relational identity process that integrates authenticity, gender and entrepreneuring in context marked by gender inequalities, and to explain how this identity functions...

...Robert Smith; Elizabeth Lloyd-Parkes Purpose In this exploratory study, we examine the qualitative methodology of “Wardrobe Studies” as a mechanism through which to conduct a semiotic analysis of a genre of “Bad-Boy-Entrepreneurs” as an embodied, elite, entrepreneurial identity. Wardrobe studies...

...Catherine Elliott; Janet Mantler; Joie Huggins Purpose Women are underrepresented in most university entrepreneurship education (EE) programmes and less likely than men to pursue business venturing as a career. One reason may be the “entrepreneurial identity gap”, whereby female students do...

...Kate V. Lewis; Marcus Ho; Candice Harris; Rachel Morrison Purpose This paper aims to report an empirically grounded theoretical framework within which to understand the role of entrepreneurial identity development in the discovery, development and exploitation of opportunity, and to elaborate...

...Fidelma Ashe; Lorna Treanor; Cecilia Bjursell; Leif Melin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a new perspective on entrepreneurial identity as a narrative construction, emerging in stories about entering the family business. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative methodological...