1st Edition

Organizational Improvisation

By Miguel Pina E. Cunha, Ken Kamoche Copyright 2002
328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

The relatively new field of organizational improvisation is concerned with the pressures on organizations to react continually to today's ever-changing environment. Organizational improvisation has important implications for such subjects as product innovation, teamworking and organizational renewal, and this new book brings together some of the best and most thought-provoking papers published in... Read more
List of Illustrations, List of Tables, List of Contributors, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction and overview, 2 Jazz as a process of organizational innovation, 3 Making sense of improvisation, 4 Improvisation as a mindset for organizational analysis, 5 Exploring the empty spaces of organizing: How improvisational jazz helps redescribe organizational structure, 6 Organizational improvisation: What, when, how and why, 7 Creativity and improvisation in jazz and organizations: Implications for organizational learning, 8 The aesthetic of imperfection in orchestras and organizations, 9 Improvising organizational transformation over time: A situated change perspective, 10 The art of continuous change: Linking complexity theory and time-paced evolution in relentlessly shifting organizations, 11 The convergence of planning and execution: Improvisation in new product,development, 12 Once again: what, when, how and why: A prospectus for research in organizational improvisation, Index

Biography

Cunha, Miguel Pina E.; Cunha, Miguel Pina E.; Kamoche, Ken