For more than a century, discussion of the connections between religion and entrepreneurship has pointed to what we would now label questions of identity. Our study of 25 participants in a program in Northern Kenya that aimed to introduce and stimulate capitalist entrepreneurship within extremely poor pastoralist communities shows that differences in participants' religious social identities strongly shaped whether or not they adopted new roles and role identities as capitalist entrepreneurs. This process also shifted the domains in which their religious and collectivist social identities were salient and helped to explain the emergence of important and contested changes in social and economic relations. We contribute to the development of founder identity theory by building research at the intersection of entrepreneurship and religion and at the intersection of entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation.

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盈利还是非盈利：宗教与创业交叉点的创始人身份


一个多世纪以来，关于宗教与创业之间联系的讨论都指向了我们现在所说的身份问题。我们对肯尼亚北部一个项目的 25 名参与者进行了研究，该项目旨在在极端贫困的牧民社区中引入和刺激资本主义创业精神，结果表明，参与者宗教社会身份的差异强烈影响着他们是否接受作为资本主义企业家的新角色和角色身份。这一过程还改变了他们的宗教和集体主义社会身份的突出领域，并有助于解释社会和经济关系中出现的重要且有争议的变化。我们通过在创业与宗教的交叉点以及创业与扶贫的交叉点上建立研究，为创始人身份理论的发展做出贡献。