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Author:   Martin Hájek
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:  

9781666947724

ISBN 10:   1666947725
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction by Martin Hájek Part I: Conceptual Framework for Failure: Activities, Infrastructures and Experiences Chapter 2: Sociology of Failure: Mission (Im)possible? by Martin Hájek Chapter 3: Failure in Projects: A Theory of Failure Organization by Martin Hájek Part II: Organizing and Experiencing Failure in Profit-driven Organizations Chapter 4: Failure As a Legitimizing Discourse in Start-up Cultures by Henri Koskinen Chapter 5: Ever and Never Failing Adventurers: Fail-Proof Subjectivity in the Start-Up Environment by Martin Hájek and Kristián Šrám Chapter 6: Failure Organization and Experience on Digital Labor Platforms by Tereza Klegr and Martin Hájek Chapter 7: Over-Emphasizing and Silencing Failure as a Governmentality Principle in For-Profit Organizations by Tereza Klegr, Kristián Šrám, and Martin Hájek Part III: Organizing and Experiencing Failure in Value-Based Nonprofit Organizations Chapter 8: Questioning the Virtue Narrative: Advocating for a Pluralistic Notion of NGO Failure by Eva Soares Moura Chapter 9: Failure in Environmental Education NGOs by Ivan R. Cuker and Martin Hájek Chapter 10: Failure in International Development Projects: Evidence from the Sport for Development and Peace Field by Eva Soares Moura Chapter 11: A Hard-Earned Non-Failure: Tensions and Ambiguities in the Field of Non-Profit Project Organization by Ivan R. Cuker, Eva Soares Moura, and Martin Hájek Part IV: The Organization of the Failure in Policy Implementation Chapter 12: Unfulfilled Hopes and Broken Promises: Theoretical Perspectives on the Failure of Diversity Management in Organizational Contexts by Julia Gruhlich and Andrea D. Bührmann Chapter 13: Failed Moral Panic and Justification: An Analysis of a Lockdown Event in China by Alice Su and Harry Sun Part V: Failure in Comparative Perspective: Differences and Similarities in the Business, NGO, and Public Policy Sectors Chapter 14: Unexpected “Family Resemblances” in Organizing and Experiencing Failure by Martin Hájek Index About the Editor About the Contributors

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Understanding how failure is organized, legitimized, and resisted is essential for grasping the dynamics of inequality, competition, and resilience in contemporary life. Edited by Martin Hájek, this volume brings together an international team of scholars to investigate the formal and informal ways in which businesses, NGOs, policy institutions, and platforms construct, negotiate, and live with failure. Drawing on rich case studies—from start-up cultures and digital labor platforms to environmental NGOs, international development projects, and diversity management initiatives—the contributors reveal how failure is shaped by evaluative infrastructures, institutional logics, and interpersonal relationships. This book is essential reading for sociologists, organizational scholars, and policy analysts, as well as for practitioners seeking to understand how failure can be both an obstacle and a resource in contemporary project-based work. * Filippo Barbera, University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto *

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Martin Hájek is associate professor of sociology.

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