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Re-entry Following Firm Failure: Nascent Technology Entrepreneurs’ Tactics for Avoiding and Overcoming Stigma

In: Technology-Based Nascent Entrepreneurship

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  • Grace Walsh

    (University of Deusto)

Abstract

Re-entry following exit is a pervasive phenomenon enabling entrepreneurs to put into practice lessons learned from their prior entrepreneurship experience. However, institutional forces shaped by cultural and societal norms contribute to the stigmatization of individuals who have experienced firm failure, as such hampering re-entry. This research explores how fifteen nascent technology entrepreneurs avoid or overcome stigma and go on to re-enter the entrepreneurial context. Three key approaches emerged from this study—detachmentDetachment (from the firm); acknowledgementAcknowledgement (of the failure); and deflection (of the stigma). As existing research on stigma is predominantly situated within the psychology and sociology literature, this study adds to the contemporary and growing body of research on the concept within the entrepreneurship context.

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  • Grace Walsh, 2017. "Re-entry Following Firm Failure: Nascent Technology Entrepreneurs’ Tactics for Avoiding and Overcoming Stigma," Palgrave Advances in Economics of Innovation and Technology, in: James A. Cunningham & Conor O'Kane (ed.), Technology-Based Nascent Entrepreneurship, chapter 0, pages 95-117, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:paiecp:978-1-137-59594-2_5
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59594-2_5
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    1. Maribel Guerrero & Jorge Espinoza-Benavides, 2021. "Does entrepreneurship ecosystem influence business re-entries after failure?," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 211-227, March.
    2. Adesuwa Omorede, 2021. "Managing crisis: a qualitative lens on the aftermath of entrepreneurial failure," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 1441-1468, September.
    3. Maribel Guerrero & Jorge Espinoza-Benavides, 2021. "Do emerging ecosystems and individual capitals matter in entrepreneurial re-entry’ quality and speed?," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 1131-1158, September.
    4. Adesuwa Omorede, 0. "Managing crisis: a qualitative lens on the aftermath of entrepreneurial failure," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-28.
    5. Kumju Hwang & Jinsook Choi, 2021. "How Do Failed Entrepreneurs Cope with Their Prior Failure When They Seek Subsequent Re-Entry into Serial Entrepreneurship? Failed Entrepreneurs’ Optimism and Defensive Pessimism and Coping Humor as a ," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(13), pages 1-24, June.
    6. Chong Kyoon Lee & Johan Wiklund & Alejandro Amezcua & Tae Jun Bae & Almantas Palubinskas, 2022. "Business failure and institutions in entrepreneurship: a systematic review and research agenda," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 58(4), pages 1997-2023, April.

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