Blended Colors or Black and White? Avoiding Dichotomous Thinking in Identity and Entrepreneurship

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Academy of Management ReviewVol. 44, No. 1 DialogueBlended Colors or Black and White? Avoiding Dichotomous Thinking in Identity and EntrepreneurshipTyler Wry and Jeffrey G. YorkTyler Wry() University of Pennsylvania and Jeffrey G. York() University of Colorado BoulderPublished Online:3 Jan 2019https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2018.0111AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleREFERENCESAlvarez, S. A., & Barney, J. B. 2007. Discovery and creation: Alternative theories of entrepreneurial action. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1: 11–26. Google ScholarBattilana, J., & Dorado, S. 2010. Building sustainable hybrid organizations: The case of commercial microfinance organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 53: 1419–1440.Link , Google ScholarBrewer, M. B., & Gardner, W. 1996. Who is this “we”? Levels of collective identity and self representations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71: 83–93. Google ScholarBurke, P. J. 2007. Identity control theory. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology: 1–5. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Google ScholarCardon, M. S., Wincent, J., Singh, J., & Drnovsek, M. 2009. The nature and experience of entrepreneurial passion. Academy of Management Review, 34: 511–532.Link , Google ScholarConger, M., McMullen, J. S., Bergman, B. J., & York, J. G. 2018. Category membership, identity control, and the reevaluation of prosocial opportunities. Journal of Business Venturing, 33: 179–206. Google ScholarFarmer, S. M., Yao, X., & Kung-McIntyre, K. 2011. The behavioral impact of entrepreneur identity aspiration and prior entrepreneurial experience. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 35: 245–273. Google ScholarFauchart, E., & Gruber, M. 2011. Darwinians, communitarians, and missionaries: The role of founder identity in entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal, 54: 935–957.Link , Google ScholarGruber, M., & MacMillan, I. C. 2017. Entrepreneurial behavior: A reconceptualization and extension based on identity theory. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 11: 271–286. Google ScholarHitlin, S. 2003. Values as the core of personal identity: Drawing links between two theories of self. Social Psychology Quarterly, 66: 118–137. Google ScholarHitlin, S. 2011. Values, personal identity, and the moral self. In S. J. SchwartzK. LuyckxV. L. Vignoles (Eds.), Handbook of identity theory and research: 515–529: New York: Springer. Google ScholarHoang, H., & Gimeno, J. 2010. Becoming a founder: How founder role identity affects entrepreneurial transitions and persistence in founding. Journal of Business Venturing, 25: 41–53. Google ScholarIbarra, H. 1999. Provisional selves: Experimenting with image and identity in professional adaptation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44: 764–791. Google ScholarMiller, T. L., Grimes, M. G., McMullen, J. S., & Vogus, T. J. 2012. Venturing for others with heart and head: How compassion encourages social entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Review, 37: 616–640.Link , Google ScholarO’Neil, I., & Ucbasaran, D. 2016. Balancing “what matters to me” with “what matters to them”: Exploring the legitimation process of environmental entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Venturing, 31: 133–152. Google ScholarPan, N. D., Gruber, M., & Binder, J. 2018. Painting with all the colors: The value of social identity theory for understanding social entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Review, 44:213–215. Google ScholarPowell, E. E., & Baker, T. 2014. It’s what you make of it: Founder identity and enacting strategic responses to adversity. Academy of Management Journal, 57: 1406–1433.Link , Google ScholarStets, J. E., & Biga, C. F. 2003. Bringing identity theory into environmental sociology. Sociological Theory, 21: 398–423. Google ScholarStets, J. E., & Burke, P. J. 2000. Identity theory and social identity theory. Social Psychology Quarterly, 63: 224–237. Google ScholarStets, J. E., & Carter, M. J. 2012. A theory of the self for the sociology of morality. American Sociological Review, 77: 120–140. Google ScholarStryker, S., & Burke, P. J. 2000. The past, present, and future of an identity theory. Social Psychology Quarterly, 63: 284–297. Google ScholarThornton, P. H., Ocasio, W., & Lounsbury, M. 2012. The institutional logics perspective: A new approach to culture, structure, and process. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google ScholarWry, T., & York, J. G. 2017. An identity-based approach to social enterprise. Academy of Management Review, 42: 437–460.Link , Google ScholarZott, C., & Amit, R. 2007. Business model design and the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Organization Science, 18: 181–199. Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 44, No. 1 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 3 January 2019 Published in print 1 January 2019 Information© Academy of Management ReviewDownload PDF