Scheitern und Selbsttäuschung

Failure is a dramatic experience to be distinguished from mere lack of success. As a social process, failure is measured against the norms of the institutions within which failure occurs. The article uses four examples to examine whether failure necessarily involves self-attribution. When is it merely an external attribution? Failure would then be associated with self-deception, which initially protects the person who fails. The text identifies five phases that are typical of failure processes

Political science · Corporate Management and Leadership · Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability · Organizational Management and Change