Moving forward from project failure: Negative emotions, affective commitment, and learning from the experience

Project failures are common. We theorized and found that although time hLals wounds (reduce the negative emotiow from project failure), it heals differently depending on the strength of individuals' specific coping orientations. Further, wounds are shal-lrwer for those who porceive that their organization normalizes failure. We conjointly consider learning from failure and affective commitment to an organization as determining how individuals move forward from project failure. Findings suggest that studies framing moving forward solely as learning from failure will likely overstate the brnefits of a "loss Orientation" and understate the banefits of both a "restoration" and an "osciilation orientation."