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Beyond Gaussian averages : redirecting management research toward extreme events and power laws (2006)
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Andriani, P., & McKelvey, B. (2006). Beyond Gaussian averages : redirecting management research toward extreme events and power laws

Practicing managers live in a world of ‘extremes’ but management research is based on Gaussian statistics that rule out those extremes. On occasion, deviation amplifying mutual causal processes among interdependent data points cause extreme events ch... Read More about Beyond Gaussian averages : redirecting management research toward extreme events and power laws.