Abstract
What will affect corporate entrepreneurs to recover from project failure? This study theorizes that entrepreneurial passion before failure has influence on recovery from project failure. Drawing on the Dualistic Model of Passion, this study explores the relationships between dualistic entrepreneurial passions (harmonious and obsessive passion) and recovery from project failure, mediated by coping strategies (active and avoidance coping strategy). Using two-staged survey data from 257 project managers who had experienced project failure, we find that harmonious passion has positive effects on failure recovery, but obsessive passion has negative effects on failure recovery. Our results further reveal a set of pathways that active and avoidance coping strategies mediate the relationship between dualistic entrepreneurial passions and recovery from project failure, with results indicating that harmonious passion facilitates recovery from project failure through enhancing active coping strategy and reducing avoidance coping strategy, but obsessive passion hinders recovery from project failure through increasing avoidance coping strategy. This study has substantial implications for literature of failure recovery by giving attention to the affective antecedents before failure.
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