Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve

By M. Cannon, Amy C. Edmondson. 2005

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Life After Business Failure (2013, background): “, Cardon et al., 2009; Shepherd, 2009).(3) In essence, Shepherd (2003) argues that while a loss orientation strategy (i.”
CEO relational leadership and strategic decision quality in top management teams: The role of team trust and learning from failure (2012, background): “In this article, we address a specific type of learning from experience – learning from failures – thereby responding to calls for further research on learning from failures in the workplace (e.g., Baumard and Starbuck, 2005; Cannon and Edmondson, 2005; Carmeli and Schaubroeck, 2008; Haunschild and ”
Learning From Mistakes: How Mistake Tolerance Positively Affects Organizational Learning and Performance (2017, background): “Even though learning from mistakes has been shown to positively affect organizations, Edmondson and her colleagues (cf. Cannon & Edmondson, 2001, 2005; Edmondson, 2004; Tucker & Edmondson, 2003) have shown that most organizations 324 The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 53(3) still do not…”
Entrepreneurs’ attitudes towards failure – an experiential learning approach (2007, background): “With a positive attitude towards failure, the very act of failing can then be confronted, studied and dealt with in a systematic and professional manner (Cannon & Edmondson, 2005).”
Linking leader inclusiveness to work unit performance: The importance of psychological safety and learning from failures (2012, background): “…there is evidence supporting the linkages between psychological sates and learning from failures (e.g., Carmeli & Zisu, 2009; Edmondson, 2004), and learning from failures with unit performance (e.g., Cannon & Edmondson, 2005), whether learning from failures mediates this effect remains unclear.”
Organizational response to adversity: Fusing crisis management and resilience research streams (2017, background): “…biases” (Westphal & Bonanno 2007: 422)], which can “give rise to ‘positive illusions’ that enable people to be energetic and happy . . . yet may be incompatible with an honest acknowledgement of failure, and thus, while promoting happiness, can inhibit learning” (Cannon & Edmondson, 2005: 302).”