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Entrepreneurship and failure

Two sides of the same coin

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ID14867375
AuthorsJohan Eklund (0000-0001-7233-3136, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, corresponding author), Nadine Levratto (0000-0002-4928-8549, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Giovanni Battista Ramello (0000-0002-6510-1748, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume54
Issue2
Pages373-382
Publication date2020-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSmall Business Economics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0921-898X • E-ISSN: 1573-0913
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11187-018-0039-z
OpenAlexW2796989698
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited33

This paper attempts to shed light on the nexus of relationships existing between failure, bankruptcy, institutional context, and local characteristics on one hand and entrepreneurship, firm survival, and performance on the other. The aim is to provide a larger vantage point from which to read the research included in this issue with the overall ambition to contribute to a better understanding of our entrepreneurial societies and the role of failure within markets. In this respect, the focus here is mainly on the institutions governing the bankruptcy procedures which do much more than simply regulating the exit of insolvent firms and protecting creditors’ investments, minimizing the social cost of failures. They set up the revolving doors through which creditors can reinvest the recovered capital in new entrepreneurial projects and failed entrepreneurs can bring back to the market their skills and their entrepreneurial spirit for fostering new and hopefully successful ventures. Therefore, by managing bankruptcy, the institutions are not only protecting the economy. Instead, they have become a tool of economic policy, devoted to the delicate issue of regulating a physiological event to the market while avoiding too much waste of resources. In a more positive perspective, managing insolvency and failure is also a mean to strengthen competitiveness and growth, making it possible to stimulate the market in reshuffling skills and resources into new activities. A deeper understanding can in turn contribute to the implementation of better and more efficient policies by integrating bankruptcy as a natural component of firm and market life

Bankruptcy · Business · Context (archaeology · Creditor · Debt · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Industrial organization · Insolvency · Market economy · Market failure · Nexus (standard · Corporate Finance and Governance · Corporate Insolvency and Governance · Private Equity and Venture Capital · Finance

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Unique citing works6
Citations per year1
Citation span2020 - 2024 (5)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 6

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