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050 0 0 _aHD58.8
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245 0 4 _aThe Routledge companion to improvisation in organizations
_c/ edited by Miguel Pina e Cunha, Dusya Vera, António Cunha Meneses Abrantes, and Anne Miner.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2024.
300 _axxiv, 512 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c26 cm.
490 0 _aRoutledge companions in business and management
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aPart 1. Conceptual linkages — Improvisation and bricolage: Similarities and differences between two approaches to resource scarcity — Eight paradoxical tensions of organizational improvisation — The Importance of referents for advancing improvisation theory and methods — The improvisation-serendipity nexus — Part 2. Improvisation process: Before, during and after — The improvisational arc: A sensemaking perspective — Preparing to be spontaneous for effective organizational improvisation — Character and improvisation: A recursive relationship — Improvisational decision making: Context, antecedents, and outcomes — Improvisation, routine dynamics, and temporal regularity — Practising strategizing: Novelty as a leap of faith expanding learning and improvising — Part 3. Improvisation in specific contexts — Improvisation in Africa — Locating improvisation in public service management: Past, present, and future research directions — Organizational improvisation in project management — Professional service firms: Why is improvisation so important? — Team leadership, momentum, and improvisation in extreme contexts — Managing improvisation in dispersed settings — Part 4. Improvisational theater beyond metaphor — Improvisation as a design for organizational emergence — Improvisational theater in organizations: Between company expectations and effects on individuals and teams — Theatrical improvisation for organizational improvisation education — Part 5. Improvisation and new organizational forms — Improvising around and about boundaries in open organizations — Agility and improvisation — Flow with the go: Real-time continuous improvisation in digital business ecosystems — Advancing improvisation within entrepreneurship research — Part 6. Conceptual expansions and conclusions — Improvisation: A taste of chaos in the middle of order and a taste of order in the middle of chaos — Strategic improvisation in loosely coupled systems — Improvisation in organizations: A review with a phenomenological research agenda — Why ever stop improvising? Why endings matter for theory and practice — Epilogue — Improvisation in organizations: Looking ahead
520 _a"This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments. Exploring theories of organizational action as well as contemporary challenges, it highlights improvisation's rich potential in theory building and practice. The value and relevance of improvisational capabilities and processes in organizations are more apparent than ever: the global pandemic has forced organizations to reinvent themselves and to adapt to dramatic change on a massive scale. This surge in improvised activity starkly illustrates how the capability to improvise is key to organizational resilience: organizations that are able to improvise effectively are better prepared to bounce back and even thrive. From the latest thinking on improvisation in organizations to future avenues for research, this volume demonstrates the rich potential for both theory building and practice, and provides a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in organizational strategy, entrepreneurship, product development, information systems, disaster management, and HRM"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aOrganizational change
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650 0 _aOrganizational behavior
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650 0 _aOrganizational resilience.
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650 0 _aCreative ability in business
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700 _aCunha, Miguel Pina e,
_eeditor.
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