 From entrepreneurial failure to re-entryPaula L. Costa, João J. Ferreira and Rui Torres de Oliveira Journal of Business Research, 2023, vol. 158, issue C Abstract: Failure is not the outcome entrepreneurs expect when they start their business. However, many do fail, experiencing painful and damaging outcomes with quite negative repercussions in their professional, personal, and social lives. Knowledge about entrepreneurial failure (EF) is still recent, and further research is needed to better understand the phenomenon, as it is a fundamental aspect of the development of the economy and of social welfare. This study aims to systematize the knowledge already developed on EF, identify gaps, and propose future research lines. Through a systematic literature review on EF, it was possible to identify essential themes, such as causes, learning, and fear, but also how those lead to reentry. Opening the black-box of reentry, by uncovering the antecedents, mechanisms, and triggers that lead entrepreneurs to restart, allows us to advance the focus on an area of the entrepreneurship literature that has been neglected. Keywords: Systematic literature review; Bibliometric analysis; Entrepreneurial failure; Failure causes; Learning; Fear (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:158:y:2023:i:c:s0148296323000577 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113699 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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