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Learning from Failures

Key Articles/Reference
Baumard, P., & Starbuck, W. H. (2005). Learning from failures: Why it may not happen. Long Range Plan, 38(3), 281-291.
Cannon, M. D., & Edmondson, A. C. (2005). Failing to learn and learning to fail (intelligently): How great organizations put failure to work to innovate and improve. Long Range Plan, 38(3), 299-319.
Ellis, S., & Davidi, I. (2005). After-event reviews: Drawing lessons from successful and failed experience. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(5), 857-871.
Ellis, S., Mendel, R., & Nir, M. (2006). Learning from successful and failed experience: The moderating role of kind of after-event review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(3), 669-680.
Gino, F., & Pisano, P. (2011). Why leaders don’t learn from success. Harvard Business Review, 89(4), 68-74.
Heimbeck, D., Frese, M., Sonneentag, S., & Keith, N. (2003). Integrating errors into the training process: The function of error management instructions and the role of goal orientation. Personnel Psychology, 56(2), 333-361.
Schank, R. (1999). Dynamic memory revisited (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Sitkin, S. B. (1992). Learning through failures: The strategy of small losses. Research in Organizational Behavior, 14, 231-266.
Tawfik, A., & Jonassen, D.H. (2013). The effects of successful versus failed cases on argumentation while solving decision-making problems. Educational Technology Research and Development, 61(3), 385-406. doi:10.1007/s11423-013-9294-511423-013-9294-5
Wong, P. T. P., & Weiner, B. (1981). When people ask “why” questions, and the heuristics of attributional search. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40(4), 650-663.