Everybody Fails But Not Everybody Learns Why is it so hard to learn from failures?

by Dahlin, Kristina; Chuang, You-Ta

• ISBN13: 9780198888642
• ISBN10: 0198888643
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-10-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Kristina Dahlin, Professor MSO, Copenhagen Business School,You-Ta Chuang, Professor, School of Administrative Studies, York University

Kristina Dahlin works in the fields of organizational learning and innovation, analysing muti-year and multi-firm data sets in a variety of industries from tennis rackets, telecommunications to freight rail. She has a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Theory from Carnegie Mellon University and before that she studied Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers in Sweden. She held positions in leading research universities such as Oxford University and the University of Toronto before joining Copenhagen Business School.

You-Ta Chuang received his BSc from Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, M.B.A from the City University of New York, and Ph.D. from Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He has published journal articles on organizational learning, competition, and LGBTQ+ issues in the workplace. He teaches strategic management and innovation at the School of Administrative Studies, York University, Canada.

Table of Contents

1. Failure learning: An introduction, Kristina Dahlin & You-Ta Chuang2. Models of failure: The many ways to study failure learning, Kristina Dahlin3. The Double-Edged Sword Of Failure Experiences: The Inverted-U Relationship Between Individuals’ Failure Experiences And Subsequent Performance, Sunkee Lee & Jisoo Park4. To Share or not to Share, to Learn or not to Learn: The role of status hierarchy in learning from failure, You-Ta Chuang, Jessica Good, & Hsin-Hua Hsiung5. Causal Attributions of Organizational Failure to Human and Non-Human Factors, Brian Park, David W Lehman, & Rangaraj Ramanujam6. Learning from Own and Others’ Success and Failure: It Depends on the Context, Michael A. Lapré7. Why is learning from errors easier said than done?, Bin Zhao8. Hand Hygiene: Either the easiest way to save lives, or the hardest, Jacob McKnight9. Organizational Learning about Failure through Simulation in Healthcare, Michal Tamuz10. My accident or yours? Failure learning in the US freight rail industry and the importance of third parties when learning from others., Kristina Dahlin & Joel Baum11. Learning from failure when failure isn't an option, Jerry Guo, Laura Patterson, & Mie Augier12. Managing Failure: Perspectives from the Frontlines, Kristina Dahlin & Laura Patterson13. Conclusions. New insights about failure learning and areas of future research, Kristina Dahlin & You-Ta Chuang