Do different institutional frameworks condition the influence of local fear of failure and entrepreneurial examples over entrepreneurial activity?

By Y. Vaillant, Esteban Lafuente. 2007

363 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e96ab1af7e7ddeb91e3dfd6e9c5849e136c0c822

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Management of Technology and Innovation

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Beyond Red Tape and Fools: Institutional Theory in Entrepreneurship Research, 1992–2014 (2017, background): “However, the existing research focuses primarily on the founding rate of entrepreneurial firms in different regions or countries (Cattani et al., 2003; Gohmann, Hobbs, & McCrickard, 2008; Miller, Grimes, McMullen, & Vogus, 2012; Vaillant & Lafuente, 2007).”
Optimism and chance: The elephants in the entrepreneurship room (2011, background): “Vaillant and Lafuente (2007) say: ‘A communication from the European Commission (1998: 14) said: “In Europe, a serious social stigma is attached to bankruptcy.”
Entrepreneurial Failure: A Synthesis and Conceptual Framework of its Effects (2020, background): “In the same vein, Vaillant and Lafuente (2007), and subsequently Lafuente et al. (2018), state that entrepreneurs who tend to blame external factors (e.g., distribution channels and market conditions), as the main reasons for the negative performance of their venture in © 2020 The Authors European…”
Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey (2016, background): “A greater awareness that entrepreneurship could contribute to rural development may explain this rise in interest (Fuller-Love et al., 2006; Kulawczuk, 1998; Vaillant & Lafuente, 2007).”
Individual–Level Resources and New Business Activity: The Contingent Role of Institutional Context (2013, background): “…factors such as people’s resources (e.g., Bhagavatula, Elfring, Tilburg, & van de Bunt, 2010; Davidsson & Honig, 2003), as well as macro-level institutions (e.g., Aidis, Estrin, & Mickiewicz, 2008; Autio & Acs, 2010; Bowen & De Clercq, 2008; Terjesen & Hessels, 2009; Vaillant & Lafuente, 2007).”
A progress review of entrepreneurship and regional development: What are the remaining gaps? (2016, background): “However, few investigate the potential heterogeneity across and within rural regions; thus juxtaposing entrepreneurial activities in different rural contexts (e.g. Bosworth & Willett, 2011; Vaillant & Lafuente, 2007).”
Formation of entrepreneurial intentions in a regional context (2013, neutral): “Vaillant and Lafuente (2007), argue that, especially in European regions, entrepreneurial failure is highly stigmatized, which increases the obstacles to engaging in entrepreneurial activities.”
Understanding place-based entrepreneurship in rural Central Europe: A comparative institutional analysis (2014, background): “…(Bruton et al., 2010; Jennings et al., 2013; Thornton et al., 2011; Welter, 2011); in particular, stressing its relevance for contextualising entrepreneurial practices in often disadvantaged rural environments (Davidsson et al., 2006; Marti et al., 2013; Vaillant and Lafuente, 2007).”
Country-based comparison analysis using fsQCA investigating entrepreneurial attitudes and activity (2016, neutral): “USA entrepreneurs tend to accept business failure, which they consider a positive experience because business failure enhances entrepreneurial knowledge and competency (Vaillant & Lafuente, 2007).”
Influence of institutional environment on entrepreneurial intention: a comparative study of two countries university students (2009, positive): “…authors have proposed that economic development, and consequently creation of new firms depends not only on tangible factors (economic) but also intangible (socio-cultural) ones (Shapero and Sokol 1982; Gnyawali and Fogel 1994; Veciana et al. 2002; Stephen et al. 2005; Vaillant and Lafuente 2007).”
Entrepreneurs’ human capital and growth aspirations: the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture (2019, background): “Because of its proximity to the entrepreneur, certain regional cultural values have been shown to affect new firm formation at the regional level (Davidsson and Wiklund 1997; Kibler et al. 2014; Vaillant and Lafuente 2007).”
Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions (2016, methodology): “For example, Arenius and Minniti (2005) and Vaillant and Lafuente (2007) find that those individuals who reveal fear of failure are much less likely to be engaged in entrepreneurship.”