A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs
This study seeks to understand how entrepreneurs in small and family businesses make sense of failure. Drawing on the literature as well as interviews conducted with Kenyan Entrepreneurs, a provisional model is proposed as well as numerous mediating factors which highlight that the sense-making proc...
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| description | This study seeks to understand how entrepreneurs in small and family businesses make sense of failure. Drawing on the literature as well as interviews conducted with Kenyan Entrepreneurs, a provisional model is proposed as well as numerous mediating factors which highlight that the sense-making process is a continuous one, based on narratives, in which multiple forces are at play. |
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| spelling | nottingham-233102017-10-13T05:33:26Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23310/ A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs Manji, Aleem This study seeks to understand how entrepreneurs in small and family businesses make sense of failure. Drawing on the literature as well as interviews conducted with Kenyan Entrepreneurs, a provisional model is proposed as well as numerous mediating factors which highlight that the sense-making process is a continuous one, based on narratives, in which multiple forces are at play. 2009-09-25 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23310/1/ALEEM_MANJI_4091238_MA_CORPORATE_STRATEGY_%26_GOVERNANCE_DISSERTATION.pdf Manji, Aleem (2009) A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | Manji, Aleem A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs |
| title | A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs |
| title_full | A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs |
| title_fullStr | A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs |
| title_short | A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs |
| title_sort | failure of expectation: an analysis of entrepreneurial sense-making after business failure - a journey through the narratives of kenyan entrepreneurs |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23310/ |