Christian Busch
Business Professor
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
Topic Areas
Change Management, Entrepreneurship, Environment and Sustainability, International Management, Leadership, Management Consulting, Management Theory, Public and Nonprofit, Social Issues, Strategic Management, Technology and Innovation
Trending Topics
Corporate Social Responsibility, Future of Work, Managing Uncertainty, Serendipity, Workforce Productivity
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Biography
Christian Busch is a business professor at the USC Marshall School of Business and also teaches at the London School of Economics. He is the bestselling author of The Serendipity Mindset, “a wise, exciting, and life-changing book” (Arianna Huffington) that “provides excellent practical guidance for all” (Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever). His research has been published in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, and has been featured by outlets such as MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, BBC, and Forbes. Previously, he taught at New York University. He cofounded Leaders on Purpose and Sandbox Network, was co-director of LSE's Innovation Lab, is a member of the World Economic Forum's Expert Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the management thinkers "most likely to shape the future." He received his PhD from the LSE.
AOM Research
- Align or Perish: Dynamic Social Enterprise Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa, Academy of Management Proceedings
- Ecosystem emergence and transformational network leadership, Academy of Management Proceedings
- Transcending homophily: Navigating institutional change in ethnically fragmented societies, Academy of Management Proceedings
- Institutional Change and Dynamic Social Networks: The Case of Kenyan IT Ventures, Academy of Management Proceedings
- Scaling Bricolage in the Context of Deep Poverty, Academy of Management Proceedings
- How and why does the network of social entrepreneurs in low-income contexts influence performance?, Academy of Management Proceedings
- From Rags to Bridges: How Social Franchise Organizations Scale, Academy of Management Proceedings
SME Subject Areas
Careers, Entrepreneurship, Environment and Sustainability, Ethics, Gender and Diversity, Health Care, Human Resources, International Management, Leadership, Management Consulting, Management Education, Management History, Management Theory, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Organizational Behavior, Public and Nonprofit, Religion and Spirituality, Research Methods, Social Issues, Strategic Management, Technology and Innovation