The present study contributes to the literature on institutional entrepreneurship by exploring the phenomenon of failure – particularly, how it is construed as such and de-emphasized through face-saving efforts by institutional entrepreneurs. We draw on extant research on institutional...

We examine how organizational stakeholders use narratives in their psychological processing of venture failure. We identify a range of “narrative attributions”, alternative accounts of failure that actors draw on to process the failure and their role in it. Our analysis provides a view of...

Entrepreneurship research is often perceived asdiverse, fragmented, in ferment, and noncumulative, which handicaps thedevelopment of the field as a respected discipline. This study attempts toaddress these concerns by mapping the structures of entrepreneurial researchand categorizing streams of...