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Organizational improvisation / edited by Ken N. Kamoche, Miguel Pina e Cunha and Joao Vieira da Cunha.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational change.
- Organizational learning.
- Organizational effectiveness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 a
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction and overview; Jazz as a process of organizational innovation; Making sense of improvisation; Improvisation as a mindset for organizational analysis; Exploring the empty spaces of organizing: How improvisational jazz helps redescribe organizational structure; Organizational improvisation: What, when, how and why; Creativity and improvisation in jazz and organizations: Implications for organizational learning; The aesthetic of imperfection in orchestras and organizations
- Improvising organizational transformation over time: A situated change perspectiveThe art of continuous change: Linking complexity theory and time-paced evolution in relentlessly shifting organizations; The convergence of planning and execution: Improvisation in new product development; Once again: what, when, how and why: A prospectus for research in organizational improvisation; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-50648-1
- 0-415-26176-7
- 1-134-50649-X
- 1-280-07365-9
- 0-203-36160-1
- 9780203361603
- OCLC:
- 56320024
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