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Serendipity as a Mechanism of Change and its Potential for Explaining Change Processes

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Serendipity plays an important role in science and technology development. This arti-cle investigates serendipity as a potential mechanism of change in management areas such as technology management, strategy and organization. The mechanism will be described and conditions that support or hinder the mechanism will be discussed.
Original languageEnglish
JournalManagement Revue
Volume20
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)138-148
Number of pages11
ISSN0935-9915
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Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2009

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  • Management studies - mechanism of change, serendipity, organizational change, strategic change, technological change

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