Learning from entrepreneurial failure : emotions, cognitions, and actions
Dean A. Shepherd, Trenton Williams, Marcus Wolfe, Holger Patzelt
- New York : Cambridge University Press, c2016.
- ix, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Grief over entrepreneurial failures; 3. Self-compassion and learning from failure; 4. Anticipatory grief, persistence, and recovery; 5. Delaying project failure as creeping death; 6. Emotional intelligence, emotional capability, and both grief recovery and sense-making; 7. Stigma over failure and impression management; 8. Narratives of entrepreneurial failure; 9. What can we do to learn more from our failure experiences?; Index.
Provides an in-depth examination of the psychological obstacles to learning from entrepreneurial failure and how these can be overcome.