Moving Forward from Project Failure: Negative Emotions, Affective Commitment, and Learning from the Experience

By Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt, Marcus T. Wolfe. 2011

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

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Citations in the corpus

Mental disorders in the entrepreneurship context : When Being Different Can Be an Advantage (2018, background): “Such research is important because it can eventually help reduce the suffering of individuals with mental disorders by hopefully maximizing the benefits of engaging in entrepreneurial action while minimizing the costs associated with failure—a frequently occurring outcome of entrepreneurial action (”
The role of affect in entrepreneurial orientation (2018, background): “Studies analyzing affect and entrepreneurial outcomes tend to neglect this unipolarity because they investigate either positive affect (Baron and Tang 2011; Baron et al. 2011; Delgado García et al. 2015, p. 203; Foo et al. 2008) or negative affect (Doern and Goss 2014; Shepherd et al. 2011).”
The positive effect of expressing negative emotions on knowledge creation capability and performance of project teams (2016, background): “Learning from these failures is aided by negative emotions signaling the importance of the loss and prompting the search for plausible causes of the loss/failure (see Shepherd et al., 2011).”
Cognition and Capabilities: A Multi-Level Perspective (2013, background): “…based on . . . success Levitt and March (1988), Levinthal and March (1993), Cannon and Edmondson (2001), Baumard and Starbuck (2005), Shepherd, Patzelt, and Wolfe (2011), and Eggers (2012b) Successes are more likely to be encoded than failures . . . similarity Cohen and Levinthal…”
The dualistic regulatory effect of passion on the relationship between fear of failure and negative affect: Insights from facial expression analysis (2020, background): “Under such conditions, it is not surprising that entrepreneurs experience negative affect, such as fear, anxiety, and worry (Patzelt and Shepherd, 2011).”
Organizational response to adversity: Fusing crisis management and resilience research streams (2017, background): “Finally, learning from failure can be enhanced by the passage of time—that is, time helps reduce the negative emotions triggered by a failure,which helps reduce obstacles to learning from the experience (Shepherd et al., 2011).”
Do entrepreneurs always benefit from business failure experience? (2018, background): “…potential length of time that entrepreneurs might take to learn from the such experiences, the current research follows prior entrepreneurship research practice (e.g., Wiklund and Shepherd, 2011) to focus on the entrepreneurs’ experiences during the 2013 to 2015 period (Muthusamy and White, 2005).”
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Entrepreneurial Narratives of Emotion, Cognition, and Making Sense of Business Failure (2015, background): “Additionally, adopting a sensemaking perspective to learning from failure requires continuously evolving plausible reflective accounts that inform current action (Shepherd et al., 2011; Weick et al., 2005).”
Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being (2021, background): “Yet alternative framing through reappraisal enables entrepreneurial learning, minimizes selfblame, and facilitates continued progress following failure (Shepherd et al., 2011).”