make certain choices and how they behave, it is crucial to bring forward the meaning and significance they give to specific actions and behaviors. The initial steps in analyzing interviews was to listen to them in a detailed manner taking notes of each respondent's answers in order to identify themes mentioned by each interviewee. This was done separately by researchers and later compared to ensure that appropriate themes were selected from interviews, relating both to frameworks and research questions. Themes were identified and divided under Singh, Corner, and (2007, pp. Pavlovich’s with entrepreneurial four aspects: economic, social, psychological, and 331) “Coping failure” physiological needed to fully comprehend how a person copes with failure. Themes were also identified to understand coping strategies taken by entrepreneurs to overcome their failures. This was done by dividing themes into and (2010) coping strategies, Drnovšek, Örtqvist, Wincent’s problem-based and emotion-based to further explain entrepreneurs learning process. Further to understand entrepreneurs learning outcomes associated with failure, researchers used Burgoyne and Hodgson (1983) three levels to explain learning outcomes. Multiple frameworks were used as this helped researchers to limit the risk of coming to false conclusions or premature ones as it limits inherent cognitive biases (Eisenhardt, 1989). The real names of respondents are also replaced with aliases in order to protect their true identities and to allow respondents to freely tell their stories. Results were then presented following the logic of questions and theory presented in the previous chapter. Direct quotations were included in the text to allow the reader to better understand the thoughts of the respondents, the context and the emotions, and allow them to immerse into the situation. These thick descriptions also lessened the analysis. (Eisenhardt, 1989).
make certain choices and how they behave, it is crucial to bring forward the meaning and significance they give to specific actions and behaviors. The initial steps in analyzing interviews was to listen to them in a detailed manner taking notes of each respondent's answers in order to identify themes mentioned by each interviewee. This was done separately by researchers and later compared to ensure that appropriate themes were selected from interviews, relating both to frameworks and research questions. Themes were identified and divided under Singh, Corner, and Pavlovich’s (2007, pp. 331) “Coping with entrepreneurial failure” four aspects: economic, social, psychological, and physiological needed to fully comprehend how a person copes with failure. Themes were also identified to understand coping strategies taken by entrepreneurs to overcome their failures. This was done by dividing themes into Drnovšek, Örtqvist, and Wincent’s (2010) coping strategies, problem-based and emotion-based to further explain entrepreneurs learning process. Further to understand entrepreneurs learning outcomes associated with failure, researchers used Burgoyne and Hodgson (1983) three levels to explain learning outcomes. Multiple frameworks were used as this helped researchers to limit the risk of coming to false conclusions or premature ones as it limits inherent cognitive biases (Eisenhardt, 1989). The real names of respondents are also replaced with aliases in order to protect their true identities and to allow respondents to freely tell their stories. Results were then presented following the logic of questions and theory presented in the previous chapter. Direct quotations were included in the text to allow the reader to better understand the thoughts of the respondents, the context and the emotions, and allow them to immerse into the situation. These thick descriptions also lessened the analysis. (Eisenhardt, 1989).