The stigma of failure in organizations
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Authors
Ferrer, Geraldo
Dew, Nicholas
Subjects
Mathematical models
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Advisors
Date of Issue
2008
Date
2008
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
Abstract
This paper presents a formal model of the (dis)incentives for entrepreneurial behavior in organizations. The model extends research on the stigma of failure into organizations by examining the implications of more conservative and more experimental organizational cultures on the incentives for entrepreneurial action by the corporate-funded employee. The discussion also derives implications for why organizations may chose to incubate new businesses in separate divisions, suggests why the stigma of failure may not always apply in public-sector organizations, and suggests why the development of entrepreneurship within organizations may be pathdependent.
Type
Technical Report
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-GSBPP-08-005
Sponsors
Funder
Format
xvi, 41 p.: ill.;28 cm.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.