Learning from business failure: Propositions of grief recovery for the self-employed

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shepherd, DA
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/30040715
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 318-328
• 关键词: PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS; emotion regulation; ENTREPRENEURIAL; responses; ANXIETY; reorientation; CONSEQUENCES; environments; BEREAVEMENT; persistence

摘要

In this paper I use the psychological literature on grief to explore the emotion of business failure, suggesting that the loss of a business from failure can cause the self-employed to feel grief-a negative emotional response interfering with the ability to learn from the events surrounding that loss. I discuss how a dual process of grief recovery maximizes the learning from business failure.