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Javier Gimeno
Professor of Strategy
Keywords
Founder role identity; Entrepreneurial transition; Persistence; Organizational founding; Identity centrality; Identity complexity
Journal Article
Hoang H. T., Gimeno J. (2010). Becoming a Founder: How Founder Role Identity Affects Entrepreneurial Transitions and Persistence in Founding Journal of Business Venturing, 25(1), (pp41-53).
The authors develop a new theory that views organizational founding as involving a role transition. Through the construct of founder role identity, the authors delineate how identity centrality and complexity affect individuals' ability to exit a work role in order to undertake founding activities.