%0 Journal Article
%T Exploring entrepreneurial roles and identity in the United Kingdom and China
%A David Bozward
%A Helen Watts
%A Huirong Zhan
%A Jing Fan
%A Peng Liu
%A Robin Bell
%A Xiaoyu Ma
%J The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
%@ 2043-6882
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1465750318792510
%X This article examines entrepreneurial identity in both the United Kingdom and China through the lenses of identity theory and social identity theory to develop a deeper and more holistic understanding of the concept of entrepreneurial identity. By examining the entrepreneur as both a role and an identity, this article explores how an entrepreneur views the role of the entrepreneur, the counter-roles to the entrepreneur, and the ˇ°self-as-entrepreneurˇ± and seeks to understand how entrepreneurs construct their identity as an entrepreneur. By looking at the role identity in different social constructs, a more nuanced view of entrepreneurial identity can be uncovered for entrepreneurs in both the United Kingdom and China. The study argues that entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom use counter-roles to bridge the disconnect between their understanding of the entrepreneur-as-role and the self-as-entrepreneur, whereas entrepreneurs in China have less conflict reconciling the two and use the counter-role as a way to paint entrepreneurship as a ˇ°calling,ˇ± justifying their abandonment of other identities
%K China
%K counter-roles
%K entrepreneurial identity
%K entrepreneurial roles
%K UK
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1465750318792510