Luck: A Key Idea for Business and Society

This book explores the role of luck in business success, moving beyond leadership and strategy to focus on the critical importance of fortune. It provides insights from economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology to establish luck as a key idea in management, analyzing various facets of fortune such as randomness, serendipity, and opportunity. By quantifying luck, the book aims to establish it in a more central role in understanding variations in business performance.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 112 pages
\n Publication date: 11 December 2019
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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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.

\n Weight: 210g\n
Dimension: 230 x 158 x 8 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781138094260\n \n