Calls in the entrepreneurship literature have advocated theory development and empirical
studies exploring fear of failure. Often viewed as an inhibitory factor towards entrepreneurial …

Fear of failure both inhibits and motivates entrepreneurial behavior and therefore represents
a rich opportunity for better understanding entrepreneurial motivation. Although …

The impact of the experience of fear of failure on individual cognition and behaviour can be
beneficial as well as detrimental. Despite this dualistic nature, in research on …

Fear of failure is an important part of the experience of entrepreneurship. Yet past research
has mainly investigated fear of failure in entrepreneurship among non entrepreneurs or …

There is a broadly held assumption within the entrepreneurship literature that fear of failure
is always and only an inhibitor of entrepreneurial behavior. However, anecdotal evidence …

The present study introduces fear of failure as a responsive avoidance motive to the
entrepreneurship literature and demonstrates its relevance as a psychological process in …

A systematic review of the entrepreneurship literature on fear published up to 2014
highlights several key characteristics. First, the predominant focus in research examining the …

Fear of failure can dominate the choices of individuals. We model its role in the decision to
become an entrepreneur and subsequent investments made in pursuit of success using the …

Although studies have suggested strong correlations between attitude, intention and actual
behaviour across various domains, the study on entrepreneurial attitude–intention …

This paper investigates how dispositional fear of failure moderates the relationship between
entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions to understand why otherwise …