苦悩する連続起業家とパートナーシップ生成： 二人称的アプローチに基づく省察の追跡

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This paper aims to elucidate how entrepreneurs generate partnerships in the early stages of their ventures as they struggle to realize their business concepts. For this purpose, this study describes entrepreneurs’ partnership development and suffering by tracing the reflection of serial entrepreneurs using a second-person approach in which the entrepreneur and the researcher are deeply engaged. The three findings of this paper are as follows: First, the multiple failures of the entrepreneurs’ businesses were used to contrast how they responded to the preemption of failure by their partners. Second, the entrepreneurs’ partnership generation and loss patterns were compared over numerous business failures. Third, entrepreneurs’interactions with partnerships differed at two points in the time immediately following the failure of their businesses. From these findings and discussion, we present a three-stage model of the process of entrepreneurial partnership development and suffering.