Project failure from corporate entrepreneurship: Managing the grief process

Dean A. Shepherd, Jeffrey G. Covin and Donald F. Kuratko

Journal of Business Venturing, 2009, vol. 24, issue 6, 588-600

Abstract: In this paper, we complement social cognitive theory with psychological theories on grief in our discussion of two approaches to grief management - grief regulation and grief normalization - that hold promise for enabling corporate entrepreneurs to cope with negative emotions induced by project failure. We propose that to the extent that organizational members have high self-efficacy for recovering from grief over project failure, or this coping self-efficacy can be built through the social support offered by the organizational environment, regulating rather than eliminating, grief via normalization processes will explain superior learning and motivational outcomes.

Keywords: Emotion; Regulation; Learning; Commitment; Normalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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