Luck

A Key Idea for Business and Society
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-09424-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: Key Ideas in Business and Management

Shortlisted for the EGOS Book Award in 2021, this book moves beyond tired analyses of business success that bias leadership and strategy in order to focus on the critical role of good fortune.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Chengwei

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The unconventional wisdom of kuck 2. How to interpret luck? 3. How to quantify luck? 4. How to strategize with luck? 5. Good night and good luck

Über Autor(innen)

Chengwei Liu (Ph.D., Cambridge) is Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Science at the ESMT Berlin, Germany and the University of Warwick, UK.