Habitual Entrepreneurs Experiencing Failure: Overconfidence and the Motivation to Try Again

Although it has been argued that overconfidence can lead to failure ( Hayward et al., forthcoming ), business failure can undermine assumptions about the self that are integral to (1) confidence in one's decision-making accuracy and (2) the motivation to engage in tasks.

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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Ucbasaran, Deniz ; Westhead, Paul ; Wright, Mike
Published in:	Entrepreneurship : frameworks and empirical investigations from forthcoming leaders of European research. - Bingley, U.K : Emerald, ISBN 978-1-84950-428-7. - 2006, p. 9-28
Subject:	Entrepreneurship \| Entrepreneurship approach \| Unternehmensgründung \| Business start-up \| Persönlichkeitspsychologie \| Personality psychology \| Insolvenz \| Insolvency \| Selbstständige \| Self-employed \| Motivation \| Unternehmer \| Entrepreneurs

Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1016/S1074-7540(06)09002-7 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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