Can They Save the Firm From Itself? Learning From Failure and the Role of Stars in Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 15544
Author(s):  
Amrita Lahiri ◽  
Warren Boeker ◽  
Donghwi Seo
Keyword(s):  
Learning From Failure

Outlining organisational failure in information systems development

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markos Goulielmos
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Organisational Learning ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Diagnostic Model ◽  
Learning From Failure ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Is Development

Defines the concept of “organisational failure” in information systems (IS) development, and proposes a diagnostic model drawn from research done into IS consultancy firms that develop systems using a variety of methodologies. The research involved a qualitative study aimed at the nature of the development process and the role of organisational issues in this process. The model’s elements and relationships were determined by the research findings. Presents two cases of failure that show how IS failure is rooted in organisational pathology and examine existing failure concepts. The concept and model proposed can be used by practitioners and management before and during a project for diagnosing organisational failure before it interferes with IS development and afterwards for extracting deeper rooted organisational learning from failure.

scholarly journals Wise academic development: learning from the ‘failure’ experiences of retired academic developers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
JA Timmermans ◽  
Kathryn Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Academic Development ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
Constructive Developmental Theory ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Constructive Developmental ◽  
Learning From Failure

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Informed by Constructive Developmental Theory and the Threshold Concepts Framework, we interviewed retired academic developers from four continents and asked them to describe their processes of learning from perceived failures and how they see the role of academic developers in supporting academics through failures. Findings regarding participants’ definitions of failure, ways of making sense of and learning from failure, and recommendations for supporting academic colleagues’ learning from failure are shared through tables, quotations, and poetry. Findings show that ‘wise academic development’ embraces curiosity about failure, integrates the (sometimes) transformative nature of failure, shares the load of sense-making, and cultivates connectedness.

scholarly journals Wise academic development: learning from the ‘failure’ experiences of retired academic developers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
JA Timmermans ◽  
Kathryn Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Academic Development ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
Constructive Developmental Theory ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Constructive Developmental ◽  
Learning From Failure

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Informed by Constructive Developmental Theory and the Threshold Concepts Framework, we interviewed retired academic developers from four continents and asked them to describe their processes of learning from perceived failures and how they see the role of academic developers in supporting academics through failures. Findings regarding participants’ definitions of failure, ways of making sense of and learning from failure, and recommendations for supporting academic colleagues’ learning from failure are shared through tables, quotations, and poetry. Findings show that ‘wise academic development’ embraces curiosity about failure, integrates the (sometimes) transformative nature of failure, shares the load of sense-making, and cultivates connectedness.

scholarly journals Successive failure, repeat entrepreneurship and no learning: A case study

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Pretorius ◽  
Ingrid Le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Research Purpose ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Learning From Failure ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Value Add ◽  
The Relationship

Orientation: Current theories of repeat entrepreneurship provide little explanation for the effect of failure as a ‘trigger’ for creating successive ventures or learning from repeated failures. Research purpose: This study attempts to establish the role of previous failures on the ventures that follow them and to determine the process of learning from successive failures.Motivation for the study: Successive failures offer potentially valuable insights into the relationship between failures on the ventures that follow and the process of learning from failure.Research design, approach and method: The researchers investigated a single case study of one entrepreneur’s successive failures over 20 years.Main findings: Although the causes varied, all the failures had fundamental similarities. This suggested that the entrepreneur had not learnt from them. The previous failures did not trigger the subsequent ventures. Instead, they played a role in causing the failures. Learning from failure does not happen immediately but requires deliberate reflection. Deliberate reflection is a prerequisite for learning from failure as the entrepreneur repeated similar mistakes time after time until he reflected on each failure.Practical/managerial implications: It confirms that failure is a part of entrepreneurial endeavours. However, learning from it requires deliberate reflection. Failure does not ‘trigger’ the next venture and educators should note this.Contribution/value-add: Knowing the effect of failure on consecutive ventures may help us to understand the development of prototypes (mental frameworks) and expand the theory about entrepreneurial prototype categories.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor
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