The authors are not aware of any other studies that examine the role of executive political skill in the
serendipitous value creation process.
The extent to which one has a successful
serendipitous experience is going to depend on the classification system being used as well as the person doing the classifying.
When it comes to theory building, this deliberate search versus
serendipitous discovery dichotomy lends itself to the logic of a unidimensional continuum corresponding to the subjective and objective aspects of opportunities (Alsos & Kaikkonen, 2005).
The college was involved in the
serendipitous discovery of sucralose - otherwise known as Splenda - in 1976.
The fact that Mickalene Thomas' rhinestone-encrusted blaxploitation-esque heroines sit down the hall from the work of her art school hero Robert Colescott charges 30 Americans with a
serendipitous synergy.
I threw it in my bug-out bag and had a chance to read it on the flight With me on the trip were Pakistani and several Afghan officers; reading your editorial article about "A Timeless Bond," I couldn't help but think how
serendipitous it was.
The search is finally resolved in one of those
serendipitous moments which life often throws up.
This paper relates several
serendipitous discoveries in physics in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Martin (art history, University of Wisconsin, Madison) has based her study of consumerism in Colonial and Post-Revolutionary backcountry Virginia on the
serendipitous survival of the account books of shop owner John Hook.
It appeared that this patient may have been fortunate because a sequence of "
serendipitous events," including a post-transplantation infection, may have given the stem cells from her donor's liver the chance to proliferate.