DISCUSSION The previous finding results are interpreted and discussed in this section. Then, the observation and reflection are linked to theoretical insights within the aforementioned literature review in order to answer the research questions. When being asked what failure is, each respondent expressed their opinions differently from action-oriented notion like an entrepreneurial to abstract concept such as “quitting life” “the fear that is needed to on the statements from David and Anders respectively. overcome” basing However, the deeper investigation revealed that failures described by entrepreneurs are not the same as failures they had actually experienced. When every respondent started to elaborate on failures they had faced in their projects, the descriptions sometimes are dissimilar with the definitions they previously provided. For instance, Calle responded that entrepreneurial failure is lack of but his detailed answer suggested that the failure in his first “a scalability” entrepreneurial project is This conflict demonstrates that the “an incompatible founding team”. real failure entrepreneurs experienced can be differed from failure they had perceived. With the regard to failing experiences each respondent described, failures reported by all of them were connected to their goals. This can be clearly seen in the case of Anders. His goal is to create a co-working space for social entrepreneurs and he said the failure occured when the bad collaboration within his team made sponsors change their minds and no longer support hosting that co-working area. The correlation between failures and goals is comparable to findings by Ucbasaran et (2010) that failure is subjected to change by personal goals of al.’s entrepreneurs. No matter what cause of failure is whether it is a mistake like a project – “starting without a business in case or a misfortune like of model” David’s “an unexpected divorce investor that made him disregard the in case, failure occurred when the project” Beatrice’s entrepreneurs received negative outcomes from their entrepreneurial endeavor (Cannon & Edmondson, 2001) and realized they could not achieve the goals so they decided to end such initiatives (McGrath, 1999). This also aligns with our definition that entrepreneurial failure
DISCUSSION The previous finding results are interpreted and discussed in this section. Then, the observation and reflection are linked to theoretical insights within the aforementioned literature review in order to answer the research questions. When being asked what failure is, each respondent expressed their opinions differently from action-oriented notion like “quitting an entrepreneurial life” to abstract concept such as “the fear that is needed to overcome” basing on the statements from David and Anders respectively. However, the deeper investigation revealed that failures described by entrepreneurs are not the same as failures they had actually experienced. When every respondent started to elaborate on failures they had faced in their projects, the descriptions sometimes are dissimilar with the definitions they previously provided. For instance, Calle responded that entrepreneurial failure is “a lack of scalability” but his detailed answer suggested that the failure in his first entrepreneurial project is “an incompatible founding team”. This conflict demonstrates that the real failure entrepreneurs experienced can be differed from failure they had perceived. With the regard to failing experiences each respondent described, failures reported by all of them were connected to their goals. This can be clearly seen in the case of Anders. His goal is to create a co-working space for social entrepreneurs and he said the failure occured when the bad collaboration within his team made sponsors change their minds and no longer support hosting that co-working area. The correlation between failures and goals is comparable to findings by Ucbasaran et al.’s (2010) that failure is subjected to change by personal goals of entrepreneurs. No matter what cause of failure is – whether it is a mistake like “starting a project without a business model” in David’s case or a misfortune like “an unexpected divorce of investor that made him disregard the project” in Beatrice’s case, failure occurred when the entrepreneurs received negative outcomes from their entrepreneurial endeavor (Cannon & Edmondson, 2001) and realized they could not achieve the goals so they decided to end such initiatives (McGrath, 1999). This also aligns with our definition that entrepreneurial failure
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