Resources
The following is a selection of serendipity publications drawn from a range of fields and disciplines. This page is a continuing work-in-progress. If you have any suggested additions to this list, please contact us.
McBirnie, A., & Urquhart, C. (2011). Motifs: Dominant interaction patterns in event structures of serendipity. Information Research, 16(3), 16–3.
Hopkins, M. E., & Zavalina, O. L. (2019). Evaluating physicians’ serendipitous knowledge discovery in online discovery systems: A new approach. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(6), 755–772.
De Rond, M. (2014). The structure of serendipity. Culture and Organization, 20(5), 342–358.
Hagel, J., Brown, J. S., & Davison, L. (2012). The power of pull: How small moves, smartly made, can set big things in motion. Basic Books.
Copeland, S. (2020). About ‘Fleming leapt…’ for April 24, 2020 – The Serendipity Society. https://theserendipitysociety.wordpress.com/about-fleming-leapt-for-journal-club-1/
Busch, C., & Barkema, H. G. (2018). Ecosystem emergence and transformational network leadership. 2018(1), 16943.
Eco, U. (1998). Serendipities: Language and lunacy. Columbia University Press.
Makri, S., & Blandford, A. (2012a). Coming across information serendipitously–Part 1: A process model. Journal of Documentation, 68(5), 684–705.
Maxwell, D., Woods, M., Makri, S., Bental, D., Kefalidou, G., & Sharples, S. (2012). Designing a semantic sketchbook to create opportunities for serendipity. 357–362.
Gest, H. (1997). Serendipity in scientific discovery: A closer look. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 41(1), 21–28.
Gillies, D. (2015). Serendipity and chance in scientific discovery: Policy implications for global society. The Handbook of Global Science, Technology, and Innovation, 525–539.
Bright, J. E., Pryor, R. G., Chan, E. W. M., & Rijanto, J. (2009). Chance events in career development: Influence, control and multiplicity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 75(1), 14–25.