Does the Learning Value of Individual Failure Experience Depend on Group Level Success? Insights from a University Technology Transfer Office

• Main Authors: ZHENG, Yanfeng, MINER, Anne S., GEORGE, Gerard
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Business; Higher Education; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4646; https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtt003
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study proposes that individual failure experience in organizations induces useful learning at the individual and group levels because it reveals valuable information and spurs actions. However, the value of individual failure experience depends on the level of group success experience. Specific...