Expectations about grief and evaluation of the griever

Project failure from corporate entrepreneurship: Managing the grief process

“…Therefore, consistent with the endowment effect (Loewenstein and Issacharoff, 1994), organizational members' grief is likely greater over the failure of projects that have been worked on for an extended period. Second, grief is often greater for sudden, unexpected losses (Kubitz et al, 1989). Therefore, projects that fail rapidly or are unexpectedly terminated by management are likely to cause organizational members to experience greater grief.…”

Grief recovery from the loss of a family business: A multi- and meso-level theory

“…Therefore, consistent with the endowment effect (Strahilevitz and Loewenstein, 1998), family members' grief is likely greater over the failure of family businesses that have existed for an extended period (over generations) and those that have required personal effort. Second, grief is often greater for sudden, unexpected losses (Kubitz et al, 1989). Therefore, family businesses that fail rapidly or are unexpectedly are likely to cause family members to experience greater grief.…”

Qualitative Exploration of the Nature of Grief-Related Beliefs and Expectations

“…Although a previous study (Middleton et al, 1993) had examined grief practitioners' and researchers' views of the grief response, and had found endorsement of the traditional perspective of grief, research investigating community expectations of grief was limited to one identified dated study (Kubitz et al, 1989). Furthermore, the impact of grief-related expectations on the bereavement experience had yet to be explored.…”

“…Previous research addressing lay perceptions of grief is limited to only one identified study of 172 university students (Kubitz et al, 1989), in which type of death, gender of the griever, and intensity of grief, were found to mediate the attractiveness of hypothetical bereaved individuals. Bereaved men who displayed a lack of intense grief following both sudden and expected deaths were rated as more attractive than bereaved men who displayed intense grief symptoms, regardless of type of death.…”

“…In relation to bereavement, individuals hold expectations about how a bereaved individual should react (Kubitz, Thornton, & Robertson, 1989). Grief-related expectations may impact interactions with bereaved individuals, as well as their bereavementrelated functioning.…”