Habitual Entrepreneurs Experiencing Failure: Overconfidence and the Motivation to Try Again
- 17 May 2006
- book chapter
- Published by Emerald Publishing
Abstract
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.Keywords
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