There is a simple reason why the number of plays, movies, novels and short stories are 1000 to 1 about every subject except business. Business is too subtle for minds of a literary bent.
Business is very hard to understand and even harder to comprehend. It is subtle. Business is about infinitely subtle communication between a business and its customers.
There is a reason, there are many reasons, customers prefer Starbucks or McDonald's to the local coffee shop with discarded living room furniture and the hamburger stand with windows too greasy to see through.
I have worked with nearly 2000 business and found that the slightest change can increase or decrease business. In a scent shop with body lotions the presence of a nearly invisible novel toilet seat on the wall (that was of interest to the shop owner) actually decreased sales. Removing the toilet seat increased sales. A subtle change in the store with more than 2000 objects and dozens of aesthetic issues. The same reason rat poison and gerbil food are on separate isles in most stores. Classification error.
The same is true of products where a minor change in wording on the bottle, a change in typeface on a brand and the change in color on a food wrapping package can make a big difference in sales both positive and negative.
All of these details are much too subtle to be determined simply by looking.
The subtlety of business is measured by a highly refined and highly evolved sense. That sense is called ‘mathematical skill’. Business uses numbers and financial statements to perceive the world. It is accounting and bookkeeping that provide business people with their highly evolved sense of the subtleties of customer choices.
The way any detail about a business operation is determined is by testing the detail being considered and looking at the financial results. Looking at numbers.
I understand why literary people cannot comprehend the subtleties of business. Business subtlety is understood through the sense of numbers.