Strategies in Failure Management Scientific Insights, Case Studies a
This book offers a comprehensive overview of failure in business, management and consulting. It features contributions by experts from diverse fields, who share unique insights from their real-life experiences. Readers will find perspectives from leadersh
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Strategies in Failure Management Scientific Insights, Case Studies and Tools
Management for Professionals
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Sebastian Kunert Editor
Strategies in Failure Management Scientific Insights, Case Studies and Tools
Editor Sebastian Kunert artop–Institute Humboldt-University Berlin Berlin, Germany
ISSN 2192-8096 ISSN 2192-810X (electronic) Management for Professionals ISBN 978-3-319-72756-1 ISBN 978-3-319-72757-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72757-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018944125 # Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 Original German edition published by Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I’d like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That’s the only sublime thing. John Dos Passos: Manhattan Transfer (1925)
Editorial
In November 2012, I met four young scientists in Leipzig (Germany) to form the interdisciplinary project team Failure-driven Innovation.1 Funded by the Peter Pribilla Foundation, we collected empirical evidence from various disciplines to determine whether innovation could emerge from failure and what role leadership plays in it. We underlined our findings with case studies and published the results as an e-book (Alexander, Berthod, Kunert, Salge, & Washington, 2015). In the following years, I did research specifically on project failure and innovation, organised a science symposium with psychologists from different disciplines on human failure factors, and published a volume on f
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