Valuable learning experience or stigmatizing event? - Three studies exploring entrepreneurs’ lives subsequent to business failure

Mandl, Christoph

Valuable learning experience or stigmatizing event? - Three studies exploring entrepreneurs’ lives subsequent to business failure

dc.contributor.advisor	Kuckertz, Andreas	de
dc.contributor.author	Mandl, Christoph	de
dc.date.accepted	2016-07-27
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:53:07Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:53:07Z
dc.date.created	2016-09-05
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a detailed examination of the business failure phenomenon and to contribute to this important stream of research by formally investigating how business failure affects the subsequent lives of entrepreneurs. Building on an attributional perspective, diverse literature streams, and multiple methodological approaches, I seek to provide some new insights on this emerging stream of literature. Entrepreneurs’ lives after business failure can be studied as a process consisting of multiple stages uniting a great variety of phenomena ultimately resulting in affective, cognitive and behavioral outcomes for failed entrepreneurs. This thesis attempts to reflect and account for this process by exploring three selected phenomena determining entrepreneurs’ lives after business failure in depth. More specifically, I will explore and analyze selected immediate effects (i.e. the social costs and potential stigma associated with business failure), intermediate effects (i.e. the way entrepreneurs make sense of and explain their previous entrepreneurial endeavor), and finally long-term effects (i.e. how the sensemaking efforts of failed entrepreneurs could signal their future decision making and behavior). Overall, this dissertation provides a balanced and comprehensive picture of entrepreneurs’ lives after business failure. The results presented may represent an important step in the theory building process to better understand entrepreneurs’ reactions in response to the failure of their business. I am confident that the contributions of this dissertation pave the way for further empirical studies investigating the diverse effects of business failure on entrepreneurs’ subsequent lives.	en
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a detailed examination of the business failure phenomenon and to contribute to this important stream of research by formally investigating how business failure affects the subsequent lives of entrepreneurs. Building on an attributional perspective, diverse literature streams, and multiple methodological approaches, I seek to provide some new insights on this emerging stream of literature. Entrepreneurs’ lives after business failure can be studied as a process consisting of multiple stages uniting a great variety of phenomena ultimately resulting in affective, cognitive and behavioral outcomes for failed entrepreneurs. This thesis attempts to reflect and account for this process by exploring three selected phenomena determining entrepreneurs’ lives after business failure in depth. More specifically, I will explore and analyze selected immediate effects (i.e. the social costs and potential stigma associated with business failure), intermediate effects (i.e. the way entrepreneurs make sense of and explain their previous entrepreneurial endeavor), and finally long-term effects (i.e. how the sensemaking efforts of failed entrepreneurs could signal their future decision making and behavior). Overall, this dissertation provides a balanced and comprehensive picture of entrepreneurs’ lives after business failure. The results presented may represent an important step in the theory building process to better understand entrepreneurs’ reactions in response to the failure of their business. I am confident that the contributions of this dissertation pave the way for further empirical studies investigating the diverse effects of business failure on entrepreneurs’ subsequent lives.	de
dc.identifier.swb	47680082X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6051
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-12500
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subject	Entrepreneurial failure	en
dc.subject	Attribution theory	en
dc.subject	Impression management	en
dc.subject	Failure narratives	en
dc.subject	Sensemaking	en
dc.subject	Stigma	de
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Fehler	de
dc.subject.gnd	Stigmatisierung	de
dc.title	Valuable learning experience or stigmatizing event? - Three studies exploring entrepreneurs’ lives subsequent to business failure	de
dc.title.dissertation	Wertvolle Lernerfahrung oder Stigmatisierendes Ereignis - Drei Studien zur Untersuchung des unternehmerischen Lebens nach dem geschäftlichen Misserfolg	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	DoctoralThesis	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	570	de
local.opus.number	1250
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Cultural Sciences	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Marketing & Management	de
thesis.degree.level	thesis.doctoral

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