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Serendipity and Organizational Capability

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  • 子, 鬼谷

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We clarified the concept of serendipity through discriminating the five types of serendipity by using three classification criteria, together with through illustrating the case of each type of serendipity. Then, based on our view that serendipity can be regarded as organizational capability, a key concept of the resource-based view of strategy research, we explored the organizational capability required for the serendipitous innovation by reviewing two recent research papers. As a result, we found that the properties of the organizational capability for increasing and facilitating the serendipitous innovation are not so different from those for the non-serendipitous innovation. The essential facilitating factor for the serendipitous innovation is the realization and penetration of the idea that the unexpected information is one of the important sources of innovations.

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  • 子, 鬼谷, 2017. "Serendipity and Organizational Capability," OSF Preprints 3dtpu, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:3dtpu
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/3dtpu
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