Overview of Entrepreneurial Failure: From an Attributional Perspective

Jing Li; Jiangyu Huang; Jianhong Li

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Overview of Entrepreneurial Failure: From an Attributional Perspective

Jing Li, Jiangyu Huang, Jianhong Li

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Received: 11 January 2021 Accepted: 20 January 2021 Published: 25 January 2021

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Entrepreneurial failure is a hot topic in entrepreneurship research. Existing literature on entrepreneurial failure mainly focuses on the definition of entrepreneurial failure, the analysis of the causes of entrepreneurial failure, the different attributions of failure caused by different stakeholders due to cognitive biases, and the different reentrepreneurial actions caused by these differences in attributions. Based on the above literature and attribution theory, this paper proposes that future research should explore whether differences in gender, experience background (such as educational experience, etc.) and task type affect the attribution of entrepreneurial failure, as well as the mechanism by which they influence the attribution. The failure of enterprise entrepreneurship affects the healthy and sustainable development of the economy. Based on attribution reasons, the influencing factors of entrepreneurship failure are discussed, which provides useful evidence for government policy formulation. This Attribution theory points out that the diversity of individual attributions in different situations is not only due to the complexity of individual perception and motivation, but also due to the diversity of tasks. By comparing the causes of entrepreneurial failure and the attribution theory in previous entrepreneurial failure literatures, we propose three possible research directions in the future. Studies should make an in-depth study of entrepreneurs' perceptions of failure and the impact of these perceptions on learning.

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DOI	10.11648/j.jim.20211001.11
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Entrepreneurial Failure, The Attribution Theory, Self-serving Bias, Serial Entrepreneurship

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Jing Li

Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China
Jiangyu Huang

College of Big Data Application and Economics, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China
Jianhong Li

Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

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