Spirituality and entrepreneurial failure
| aut.conference.type | Paper Published in Proceedings | |
| aut.researcher | Singh, Smita | |
| dc.contributor.author | Singh, S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Corner, T | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-21T05:01:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-08-21T05:01:21Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2014-08-01 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-08-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The paper examines how spirituality affected entrepreneurs’ experience of venture failure and its aftermath. Failure is an important but under-researched part of the entrepreneurial process. We implement a qualitative, narrative research design and present a collective story of nine spiritually oriented entrepreneurs’ experience of failure. Overall, the paper extends research beyond the current psychological focus to a spiritual perspective. Findings show that entrepreneurs’ experience of failure was different from that predicted by psychological theories. Entrepreneurs deeply engaged with failure instead of indulging in self-deception and other cognitive strategies to cope with the negative emotions of failure. Furthermore, findings revealed a rare, unexpected positive outcome from failure – entrepreneurs evolved spiritually through experiencing this negative life event. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management held at Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, 2014-08-01 to 2014-08-05, published in: The Power of Words. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/7584 | |
| dc.publisher | Academy of Management (AOM) | |
| dc.relation.uri | http://program.aom.org/2014/submission.asp?mode=showsession&SessionID=2175#symb | |
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| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.subject | Spirituality | |
| dc.subject | Failure | |
| dc.subject | Venturing | |
| dc.title | Spirituality and entrepreneurial failure | |
| dc.type | Conference Contribution | |
| pubs.elements-id | 169999 | |
| pubs.organisational-data | /AUT | |
| pubs.organisational-data | /AUT/Business & Law |