The regulatory focus theory offers a well-developed framework to explain the motives, beliefs, and behaviors that dictate whether an entrepreneurial venture will succeed. The aim of the essay is to provide a conceptual framework accounting for entrepreneurial success. Individuals may engage in...

A central tenet of organizational justice theory is that people prefer decisions to be made with higher than with lower procedural fairness. The results of five studies unearthed a boundary condition for this general tendency. People who experienced non-contingent success had less of a desire to...