Looking Back To Venture Forward: Exploring Idea and Identity Work in Public Failure Narratives
研究创业者如何通过公开讲述失败故事来重新审视自己的创业想法和身份，并探讨这种叙事如何影响他们后续的职业道路，包括再次创业或退出创业领域。
Business failure often leads entrepreneurs to craft public narratives. Taking a performative storytelling perspective of such narratives, we investigate how entrepreneurs jointly reevaluate their ideas and identities, and how this relates to their subsequent career paths. We theorize that the stories entrepreneurs tell shape who they become, changing not only how others see them but also how they see themselves. This broadens theoretical understanding of how failed entrepreneurs navigate their transition to a diverse array of subsequent careers, including different forms of serial entrepreneurship (same industry; new industry) and exit (startup employee; established business employee; exit with reentry).