Luck
eBook - ePub

Luck

A Key Idea for Business and Society

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Luck

A Key Idea for Business and Society

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Luck by Chengwei Liu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Betriebswirtschaft & Verwaltung. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781351603263

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. CONTENTS
  7. List of figures
  8. 1 The unconventional wisdom of luck
  9. 2 How to interpret luck?
  10. 3 How to quantify luck?
  11. 4 How to strategize with luck?
  12. 5 Good night and good luck
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. References
  15. Index