How do individuals and collectives construct and sustain identities that run counter to dominant institutions? We develop the notion of counter-institutional identity as involving individual and collective constructions of ‘who we are' that are in strong opposition to dominant values and...

Perseverance and self-efficacy are required in the process of new business formation. This article investigates whether entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs differ on these attributes.Also investigated was the question whether the high levels of perseverance and self-efficacy that assist...