TITLE:
Express Yourself or Stay Mystery? The Effect of Self-Disclosure on Entrepreneurial Identity of Team Members
AUTHORS:
Yun Duan, Yangyu Zhang, Jingjing Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Entrepreneurship, Self-Disclosure, Emotional Contagion, Entrepreneurial Identity, Entrepreneurial Passion
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.6 No.12,
December
28,
2018
ABSTRACT: The entrepreneurial identity of team members is vital to team stability and entrepreneurial success. How to improve the identity of team members is a significant issue for entrepreneurs to ponder. Combining literature analysis and empirical research, this paper discusses the following issues: 1) Whether the entrepreneur’s self-disclosure has a positive impact on the members’ entrepreneurial identity; 2) The internal mechanism of how entrepreneur’s self-disclosure affects the team members’ entrepreneurial identity. The results show that in the context of entrepreneurship in China, the self-disclosure of entrepreneurs can promote the entrepreneurial identity of the team members, and the entrepreneurial passion mediates the relationship between them.