TY - JOUR
T1 - Business Failures around the World
T2 - Emerging Trends and New Research Agenda
AU - Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph
AU - Wang, Xiaojun
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - In a twenty-first century shaped by increasing market competition, business failures are inevitable for many firms, yet capturing and utilizing insights from failures and alleviating unnecessary business failure remain major obstacles. In this paper, we present an overview of the literature on business failure and attempt to clarify some key issues on the subject. We also present an introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Business Failures around the World’ and highlight several novel ideas, emerging trends and uncharted terrains for future research.
AB - In a twenty-first century shaped by increasing market competition, business failures are inevitable for many firms, yet capturing and utilizing insights from failures and alleviating unnecessary business failure remain major obstacles. In this paper, we present an overview of the literature on business failure and attempt to clarify some key issues on the subject. We also present an introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Business Failures around the World’ and highlight several novel ideas, emerging trends and uncharted terrains for future research.
KW - Business failure
KW - Failure
KW - Global environment
KW - Organisational failure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063084770&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.064
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.064
M3 - Editorial (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85063084770
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 98
SP - 367
EP - 369
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -