Presented by

Anna Jenkins
Doctoral Candidate Business Administration
ESOL (Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organisation and Leadership)
Jönköping International Business School
Jönköping University

Abstract

The present research uses attributional theory (Weiner, 1985, 1986) to formulate hypotheses concerning learning and motivation to re-enter self-employment after firm failure. The hypotheses are tested using data from 126 Swedish owner-managers who recently filed for firm bankruptcy. The results suggest that learning is an important mediating variable between attributions for failure and motivation to re-enter self-employment. Specifically, I found that there are two types of entrepreneurs who re-enter self-employment after experiencing firm failure- those that potentially learn the most from failure and those that learn the least.

When

15 February 2012
11:00am - 12:00pm

Where

University Centre, BLD (06_04_11)
Bond University

Contact Information

Catherine Smith
Database and Research Support
Faculty of Business
Telephone: +61 7 5595 55721