Organizational Improvisation

ISBN-13: 9780415261760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 328 str.

Joao Vieira Da Cunha;Miguel Pina E. Cunha;Ken Kamoche

Opis

Confronted with rapid and unpredictable environments, contemporary organizations are becoming more aware of the benefits of improvisation. By improvising, organizations create the capacity to make sudden adaptive moves, thus adapting in real time to unexpected events. Organizational improvisation is therefore an exciting area in terms of practice and research. Organizational improvisation has important implications for such subjects as product innovation, teamworking and organizational renewal, and this new book brings together some of the most thought-provoking papers published. Organizational improvisation is now emerging as one of the most important areas of organizational science, and this book provides a comprehensive collection suitable for students, researchers and practitioners alike.

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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