Entrepreneurs’ attitudes towards failure – an experiential learning approach

By Diamanto Politis, Jonas Gabrielsson. 2007

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Education, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Effects of Business Failure Experience on Successive Entrepreneurial Engagements: An Evolutionary Phase Model (2018, background): “First, despite the surging stream of research on how entrepreneurs learn from business failure (e.g., Cope, 2011; Politis & Gabrielsson, 2009) and effects of business failure on entrepreneurs’ subsequent entrepreneurial engagements (e.g., Shepherd, 2003; Yamakawa & Cardon, 2015), we still know…”
Improving perceived entrepreneurial abilities through education: Exploratory testing of an entrepreneurial self efficacy scale in a pre-post setting (2013, background): “More specifically, these authors and others (e.g. Kirby, 2004; Krueger, 2007; Neck & Green, 2010; Politis & Gabrielsson, 2009) have argued in favor of experiential learningmodels (Kolb,1984) and effectual decision-making (Sarasvathy, 2001).”
Keep Calm and Carry On: Emotion Regulation in Entrepreneurs’ Learning from Failure (2018, background): “Although failure has long been recognized as an integral part of entrepreneurship, knowledge of how and when entrepreneurs learn from failure remains incomplete (Cope, 2011; Politis & Gabrielsson, 2009; Shepherd, 2003).”
Life After Business Failure (2013, background): “Yet a parent’s ability to recover from failure and demonstrate resilience may reduce the child’s fear of failure and, in doing so, help develop a more positive attitude toward failure (for initial evidence, see Politis & Gabrielsson, 2009).”
Entrepreneurial resilience and venture failure (2017, background): “Surprisingly, there is a lack of research investigating resilience in the context of venture failure given that Shepherd (2003) suggests failure is akin to a loved one’s death and others describe it as traumatic, debilitating and stigmatizing (Cope, 2011; Politis and Gabrielsson, 2009; Singh et al.,”
Causal ascriptions and perceived learning from entrepreneurial failure (2015, background): “1993) including gender (1 = male), age at new start-up (in years), industry experience (in months) as a proxy for knowledge, skills, and capabilities (Minniti and Bygrave 2001), and the extent of failure (number of previous failures) (Politis and Gabrelsson 2009).”
What is entrepreneurial failure? Implications for future research (2016, background): “Using unmet expectations as the criterion for failure, prior research has compared habitual entrepreneurs who have experienced failure with entrepreneurs who have not experienced failure (Politis and Gabrielsson, 2009; Ucbasaran et al., 2010).”
Individual responses to firm failure : Appraisals, grief, and the influence of prior failure experience (2014, background): “In support of this notion, Politis and Gabrielsson (2009) found that habitual entrepreneurs with prior failure experience have a more positive attitude toward failure compared to entrepreneurs without such experience.”
Do entrepreneurs always benefit from business failure experience? (2018, background): “This new finding provides empirical backing to the growing contention in the business failure literature that new venture success is determined by the entrepreneurs’ ability to learn from their failure experience (Politis and Gabrielsson, 2009; Ucbasaran et al., 2009).”
Making the Most of Failure Experiences: Exploring the Relationship between Business Failure and the Identification of Business Opportunities (2016, background): “, manage the grief recovery process (Shepherd, 2003), utilize self-compassion in regulating negative emotions (Shepherd & Cardon, 2009), and adopt positive attitudes in the face of failure (Politis, 2008; Politis & Gabrielsson, 2009) in trying to overcome barriers to learning.”
Entrepreneurial orientation and SME international performance: The mediating role of networking capability and experiential learning (2019, background): “In our study, we focus on experiential learning because it helps firms shape their distribution of outcomes to be more favourable (Wiklund and Shepherd, 2011) as entrepreneurial firms learn how to cope with failure through their life and work experience (Politis and Gabrielsson, 2009).”