Luck: A Key Idea for Business and Society
- ISBN-10
- 1351603272
- ISBN-13
- 9781351603270
- Series
- Luck
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-27
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Chengwei Liu
Description
Case studies of business and management success tend to focus on factors such as leadership, innovation, competition, and geography, but what about good fortune? This book highlights luck as a key idea for business and society. The author provides insights from economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology to create a brief intellectual history of luck. In positioning luck as a key idea in management, the book analyzes various facets of fortune such as randomness, serendipity, and opportunity. Often overlooked given psychological bias toward meritocratic explanations, this book quantifies luck to establish the idea in a more central role in understanding variations in business performance. In bringing the concept of luck in from the periphery, this concise book is a readable overview of management which will help students, scholars, and reflective practitioners see the subject in a new light.
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