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9780415261753

Organizational Improvisation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415261753

  • ISBN10:

    0415261759

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-12-14
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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 recent years. This area is now emerging as one of the most important in organizational science, and this book provides a comprehensive collection suitable for students, researchers and practitioners alike.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
List of Tables
viii
List of Contributors
ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction and overview
1(13)
K.N. Kamoche
M.P. Cunha
J.V. Cunha
Jazz as a process of organizational innovation
14(15)
D.T. Bastien
T.J. Hostager
Making sense of improvisation
29(23)
M.M. Crossan
M. Sorrenti
Improvisation as a mindset for organizational analysis
52(21)
K.E. Weick
Exploring the empty spaces of organizing: How improvisational jazz helps redescribe organizational structure
73(23)
M.J. Hatch
Organizational improvisation: What, when, how and why
96(42)
M.P. Cunha
J.V. Cunha
K.N. Kamoche
Creativity and
138(28)
improvisation in jazz
F.J. Barrett
The aesthetic of imperfection in orchestras and organizations
166(19)
K.E. Weick
Improvising organizational transformation over time: A situated change perspective
185(44)
W.J. Orlikowski
The art of continuous change: Linking complexity theory and time-paced evolution in relentlessly shifting organizations
229(33)
S.L. Brown
K.M. Eisenhardt
The convergence of planning and execution: Improvisation in new product development
262(34)
C. Moorman
A.S. Miner
Once again: what, when, how and why: A prospectus for research in organizational improvisation
296(13)
J.V. Cunha
K.N. Kamoche
M.P. Cunha
Index 309

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