Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas
研究不同创业情境中创业者如何通过社会互动进行身份工作，发现商业网络和创意中心分别使用结构性工具性工作和关系性工作两种主导解释库，并探讨了身份工作中对尊重和亲近的追求。
This paper examines how entrepreneurs within different settings reflect on social interactions to work on their identity. Using life story narratives, we explore a business membership network and a creative hub in the central belt of Scotland. Our subsequent model shows how individuals in these settings use different dominant interpretive repertoires, as represented by structural-instrumental work in the business network and relational work in the creative hub. We also show how the interpretive repertoires both shape and are shaped by what individuals strive for in their identity work: striving for esteem and striving for closeness. We discuss how our findings offer insight into the dynamics of social identities and how they are reproduced and maintained through situated exchange using specific interpretive repertoires and striving agendas.