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- Title
Project Failures Arising from Corporate Entrepreneurship: Impact of Multiple Project Failures on Employees' Accumulated Emotions, Learning, and Motivation.
- Authors
Shepherd, Dean A.; Haynie, J. Michael; Patzelt, Holger
- Abstract
In this paper, we consider an organizational paradox inherent to corporate entrepreneurship; that is, the pursuit of entrepreneurial projects is necessary for organizational rejuvenation, renewal, and/or organic growth; however, the high failure rate of entrepreneurial projects likely has enduring implications for the project team members and, by extension, the organization. Drawing on the psychology and emotion literatures, we model the human capital costs of corporate entrepreneurship arising from the multiple failures of entrepreneurial projects. Specifically, we explore how and with what consequence negative emotions can accumulate across multiple failures; when this accumulation is most likely to occur; and what the nature of this accumulation is across organizational contexts, employee differences, and time. This theorizing complements extant scholarship focused on the financial benefits and costs of corporate entrepreneurship by investigating the negative impact of multiple project failures on employees.
- Subjects
PROJECT management -- Failure; EMPLOYEE psychology; CORPORATE growth; ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- Psychological aspects; FAILURE (Psychology); LITERATURE reviews; ORGANIZATIONAL performance research
- Publication
Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2013, Vol 30, Issue 5, p880
- ISSN
0737-6782
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jpim.12035