Shadow of Your Former Self: Exploring Project Leaders’ Post-Failure Behaviors (Resilience, Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy) in High-Tech Startup Projects

Globally, demands for sustainable strategies in the ICT industry have attracted greater momentum as high-tech projects continue to fail in large numbers. Recent studies have underpinned project resilience as a major factor for overcoming these increasing project failures, delays, or termination. However, the complex behaviors of resilient project leaders, especially in post-failure conditions, have been largely overlooked. To address this critical research gap, the present study identifies the direct relationships between three potential behavioral traits of project leaders (i.e., resilience, self-esteem, and self-efficacy) and examines how they move forward beyond project failures. The present study also explored whether self-esteem mediates project leaders’ resilience and self-efficacy. Drawing on data from 232 project leaders in Pakistan’s high-tech start-ups, the new findings suggest that there are significant positive effects of project leaders’ resilience and self-esteem on their self-efficacy, and that project leaders’ resilience and self-efficacy is significantly mediated by their self-esteem. As the project resilience theory gains traction, the present study findings have pinpointed major steps for meeting project challenges ahead of time, allowing leaders and teams to learn from failures, and also for improving organisations’ ability to implement successful and sustainable high-tech projects especially in emerging economies.

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Effects of Compassion on Employees' Self-regulation

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2016.44.7.1173 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 44 (7) ◽

pp. 1173-1190 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Hyung Jin Choi ◽

Sangmin Lee ◽

Se-Ri No ◽

Eung Il Kim

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Model ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Workplace Deviance ◽

Intention To Quit ◽

Mediating Effects ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Dependent Variables

We examined how compassion can alleviate employees' negative emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. On the basis of self-regulatory resources theory, we hypothesized that there would be relationships between the 2 mediating variables of self-esteem and self-efficacy, and the dependent variables of anxiety, burnout, workplace deviance, and intention to quit. We collected data on these variables from 284 nurses, who work in a stressful job that necessitates compassion from colleagues, to test our theoretical model. The results revealed that compassion alleviated negative emotions (anxiety and burnout), behavior (workplace deviance), and thoughts (intention to quit), with both self-esteem and self-efficacy having mediating effects. Thus, we demonstrated the specific path through which compassion can have positive effects on an organization's employees. We discuss the observed relationship between compassion and self-regulation, and theoretical contributions regarding differences between self-esteem and self-efficacy, as well as between anxiety and burnout.

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Financial Self-Efficacy in Family Business Environments

Journal of Enterprising Culture ◽

10.1142/s021849582150014x ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 29 (03) ◽

pp. 207-219

Author(s):

Jasna Auer Antoncic ◽

Drasko Veselinovic ◽

Bostjan Antoncic ◽

Dalma Lorena Grbec ◽

Zhaoyang Li

Keyword(s):

Family Business ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Business Environment ◽

Business Growth ◽

Normative Model ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Business Environments ◽

The Family ◽

Research Gap ◽

Start Ups

Entrepreneurial self-efficacy can have positive effects on entrepreneurship, company start-ups, and business growth. The family business environment has not yet been studied in relation to financial-self efficacy, a dimension of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. In order to address this research gap, this paper focuses on financial self-efficacy and how it relates to its antecedent — the family business environment. This study contributes to a better understanding of how financial self-efficacy has developed in the family business environment by building and checking a normative model. A hypothesis about family business environment experience and the financial self-efficacy relationship was developed and empirically tested using survey data from two countries. The findings of this research reveal the family business environment can make a difference in financial self-efficacy in certain economic contexts.

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Backpacker Personal Development, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Testing a Structural Model

Journal of Travel Research ◽

10.1177/0047287518768457 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 680-694 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ganghua Chen ◽

Songshan (Sam) Huang ◽

Xianyang Hu

Keyword(s):

Self Efficacy ◽

Personal Development ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Structural Model ◽

Emotional Adjustment ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Theoretical Understanding ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Two Samples

Guided by self-determination theory (SDT), this study aims to advance the theoretical understanding of backpacker personal development (BPD) by examining its relationships with two important social-psychological constructs, that is, generalized self-efficacy (GSE) and self-esteem (SE). Using two samples from different cultural groups (Chinese backpackers, n=230; Western backpackers, n=242) and applying the partial least squares structural equation modeling, the study found that among Chinese backpackers, skill development positively influenced GSE while worldview changes negatively influenced SE. For Western backpackers, capability development and emotional adjustment positively influenced their GSE. The positive effects of GSE on SE were confirmed in both samples. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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