Coping with entrepreneurial failure

By Smita Singh, Patricia Doyle Corner, K. Pavlovich. Journal of Management & Organization, 2007

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Prior knowledge and social networks in the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities (2010, methodology): “Independent variables To measure the number of potential opportunities, we used the following item from Singh et al. (1999): Based on the ideas that you have had in 490 Int Entrep Manag J (2010) 6:481–501”
Stigma and business failure: implications for entrepreneurs’ career choices (2014, background): “…that convey information about prior business failures contribute to research examining institutional pressures on the strategic choices of organizations (Oliver, 1991) and the roles of coping strategies in the entrepreneurial process (Levie and Autio, 2011; Singh et al., 2007; Shepherd, 2003).”
Life After Business Failure (2013, background): “These experienced or anticipated social costs resulting from the stigma of failure may explain why some entrepreneurs engage in self-imposed social distancing and withdrawal (Cope, 2011; Shepherd & Haynie, 2011; Singh et al., 2007).”
Linking information systems and entrepreneurship: A review and agenda for IT‐associated and digital entrepreneurship research (2018, background): “However, a large percentage of new ventures fail, particularly in the field of IT ‐ associated start ‐ ups (Hathaway, 2013; Singh et al., 2007; Timmons, 1994).”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “In contrast to coping with actual venture failure, which has been studied extensively in the entrepreneurship literature (e.g., Jenkins et al., 2014; Singh et al., 2007; Ucbasaran et al., 2013), research on coping with the day- to- day obstacles that induce fear of failure is remarkably scarce.”
Causal ascriptions and perceived learning from entrepreneurial failure (2015, background): “Failure is a necessary part of entrepreneurship since opportunity creation can occur through a process of trial and error, and failure of particular opportunities can be an essential part of the path toward career success (Singh et al. 2007).”
Making the Most of Failure Experiences: Exploring the Relationship between Business Failure and the Identification of Business Opportunities (2016, background): “Failure is a life-altering event with potentially damaging consequences for all the major areas of an entrepreneur’s life, entailing economic, psychological, social, and physiological costs (Shepherd, 2004; Singh et al., 2007).”
Entrepreneurial resilience and venture failure (2017, background): “Scholars assume a recovery trajectory in existing research (Shepherd, 2003; Singh et al., 2007; Ucbasaran et al., 2013).”
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Entrepreneurial Narratives of Emotion, Cognition, and Making Sense of Business Failure (2015, background): “…corpus of work on learning from failure that has focused on emotional barriers to making sense of one’s failure experiences (Shepherd, 2003; Shepherd et al., 2011), learning outcomes (Singh, Corner, & Pavlovich, 2007), and the content and nature of learning tasks and timeframes (Cope, 2011).”
Entrepreneurs’ attitudes towards failure – an experiential learning approach (2007, background): “The closure process is often experienced as an active learning process that leads to valuable information and knowledge that can be exploited in other entrepreneurial settings (Stokes and Blackburn, 2002: Bates, 2005; Singh et al., 2007).”
Entrepreneurial Failure: A Synthesis and Conceptual Framework of its Effects (2020, background): “Those long‐term outcomes are not just individual level (e.g., economic, physiological, psychological and social outcomes; Singh et al., 2007), but generate implications that go beyond the entrepreneur and may manifest themselves in the formation of new ventures (Amankwah‐Amoah et al.”
Narrative attributions of entrepreneurial failure (2013, background): “Our narrative approach provides a new perspective that augments existing, largely objectivist studies on organizational failure (see Mellahi and Wilkinson, 2004), and the failure of entrepreneurial ventures (Bruno et al., 1992; Dimov and De Clercq, 2006; Shepherd, 2003; Singh et al., 2007; Zacharaki”
What is entrepreneurial failure? Implications for future research (2016, background): “For example, Singh et al. (2007) examine the personal financial and emotional challenges faced by the entrepreneur after business discontinuance.”
Individual responses to firm failure : Appraisals, grief, and the influence of prior failure experience (2014, methodology): “To understand the extent to which entrepreneurs feel grief as an emotional response to firm failure, we use appraisal theory (Lazarus, 1991, 1999; Lazarus and Folkman, 1984; Smith and Lazarus, 1993).”