The entrepreneurial story and its implications for research

A Brattström, K Wennberg - Entrepreneurship theory and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Research is not merely report-writing; it also involves elements of storytelling. In this essay,
we reflect on two narrative archetypes in entrepreneurship research: the stories of …

Randomisation as a tool for organisational decision-making: a debatable or debilitating proposition?

G Dushnitsky, JP Eggers, C Franzoni… - Industry and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The role of experts has been called into question recently. Scholarly works debate whether
expert judgement is given excessive reliance on innovation, science, and entrepreneurial …

When reinforcing processes generate an outcome-quality dip

J Denrell, C Liu - Organization Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
When does market success indicate superior merit? We show that when consumer choices
between products with equal prices depend on quality but also on past popularity, more …

A normative theory of luck

C Liu, CJ Tsay - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Psychologists have identified heuristics and biases that can cause people to make
assumptions about factors that contribute to the success of individuals and firms, whose …

In luck we trust: capturing the diversity bonus through random selection

C Liu - Journal of Organization Design, 2021 - Springer
Complex tasks often cannot be addressed with expertise, but instead by assembling a
diverse cognitive repertoire in teams. In such cases, engaging diversity may enhance …

Executives and career shocks: observations from coaching practice

K Korotov - Career Development International, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The study provides practice-based vignettes describing career shocks as
experienced by executives. It also offers a brief description of the approaches taken by the …

The variance of variance

C Liu, CJ Tsay - Carnegie goes to California: Advancing and …, 2021 - emerald.com
Chance models–mechanisms that explain empirical regularities through unsystematic
variance–have a long tradition in the sciences but have been historically marginalized in …

Superstition: An Overview of Key Disciplinary Perspectives

J Crossman - … Organisations: Irrationality, Randomness, and Chaos in …, 2024 - Springer
This chapter explores some of the disciplinary approaches to scholarship about superstition,
concentrating largely on works published in thesocial sciences over the last century …

The Relationship Between Religion, Superstition and Spirituality

J Crossman - … Organisations: Irrationality, Randomness, and Chaos in …, 2024 - Springer
This chapter begins with defining religion, spirituality and superstition and explores the
complexities involved in tracing the relationships amongst them. It also introduces related …

Numerological and Related Superstitions

J Crossman - … Organisations: Irrationality, Randomness, and Chaos in …, 2024 - Springer
Numbers and various numerical systems have a long history over millennia and across
cultures. Their influence in almost all aspects of human life, including the religious, spiritual …