Author(s)

Yun Duan, Yangyu Zhang^*, Jingjing Zhang

School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

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.

Entrepreneurship, Self-Disclosure, Emotional Contagion, Entrepreneurial Identity, Entrepreneurial Passion

Duan, Y. , Zhang, Y. and Zhang, J. (2018) Express Yourself or Stay Mystery? The Effect of Self-Disclosure on Entrepreneurial Identity of Team Members. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 6, 204-218. doi: 10.4236/jss.2018.612018.