Study goals
a) investigate potential interrelationships between the entrepreneur's activity and failures; b) raise the affective aspects that drive entrepreneurs to fail; c) identify the affective aspects that entrepreneurs present;
Relevance / originality
The topic becomes relevant in view of the scarcity of studies that address failures in an individual context in which the entrepreneur takes the lead and in which his emotions can directly affect the business.
Methodology / approach
The method used is qualitative, descriptive and exploratory. Data collection was carried out through interviews.
Main results
The results showed that the affective aspects are related to the failures of entrepreneurs, driving the occurrence of failures and that persist after the failure event.
Theoretical / methodological contributions
The purpose is to bring contributions to the debate on how affectivity can impact entrepreneurs. This evidence presents a gap to be investigated.
Social / management contributions
This study contributes to the aspect of removing the stigma of failure as something that only brings negative consequences to the entrepreneur, helping in the learning process.