TY - JOUR AB - Purpose Conflict between work and family is a significant issue for entrepreneurs. The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of entrepreneurial failure on both family–work conflict (FWC) and work–family conflict (WFC) and the moderating role of perceived control of time and organizational slack based on conservation of resources (COR) theory.Design/methodology/approach This study used a questionnaire to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial failure, FWC/WFC, perceived control of time and organizational slack. Data were collected from the Chinese context in 2018 and as a result received 318 valid questionnaires, obtaining a response rate of 63.6 per cent.Findings The study finds that entrepreneurial failure has a significant relationship with FWC but a nonsignificant relationship with WFC and that perceived control of time and organizational slack moderate the relationship between entrepreneurial failure and FWC/WFC.Originality/value This study aligns the field of family–work (work–family) conflict and entrepreneurial failure. It addresses a research gap in the conflict literature by introducing one form of resource loss: entrepreneurial failure as a source of conflict between work and family based on COR theory and the work–home resources model. The study also enriches the literature on the social cost of entrepreneurial failure by exploring the crossover effect of entrepreneurial failure on conflicts in the family domain. Furthermore, the study advances the understanding of managing conflict between work and family after entrepreneurial failure. VL - 31 IS - 3 SN - 1044-4068 DO - 10.1108/IJCMA-09-2019-0157 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCMA-09-2019-0157 AU - Yu Xiaoyu AU - Meng Xiaotong AU - Cao Gang AU - Jia Yingya PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/01/01 TI - Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurial failure and conflict between work and family from the conservation of resources perspective T2 - International Journal of Conflict Management PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 417 EP - 440 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -