A Failure of Expectation: An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Sense-Making after Business Failure - A Journey through the Narratives of Kenyan Entrepreneurs

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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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Main Author:	Manji, Aleem
Format:	Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23310/

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