1st Edition

Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life Working Live

Edited By Patricia Shaw, Ralph Stacey Copyright 2006
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power relating. The result is a way of thinking about life in organizations that focuses attention on how organizational members cope with the unknown as they... Read more

 1. Introduction: Working Live  2. Theater, Improvisation and Social Change  3. Risk and ?Acting? Into the Unknown  4. Presence and Spontaneity in Improvisational Work 5. Leading in the Moment: Taking Risks and Living with Anxiety  6. Complex Responsive Processes as a Theory of Organizational Improvisation

Biography

Patricia Shaw, Ralph Stacey