Organizational improvisation

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.

Introduction and overview / K.N. Kamoche, M.P. Cunha, J.V. Cunha -- Jazz as a process of organizational innovation / D.T. Bastien, T.J. Hostager -- Making sense of improvisation / M.M. Crossan, M. Sorrenti -- Improvisation as a mindset for organizational analysis / K.E. Weick -- Exploring the empty spaces of organizing: how improvisational jazz helps redescribe organizational structure / M.J. Hatch -- Organizational improvisation: what, when, how and why / M.P. Cunha, J.V. Cunha, K.N. Kamoche -- Creativity and improvisation in jazz and organizations: implications for organizational learning / F.J. Barrett -- The aesthetic of imperfection in orchestras and organizations / K.E. Weick -- Improvising organizational transformation over time: a situated change perspective / W.J. Orlikowski -- The art of continuous change: linking complexity theory and time-paced evolution in relentlessly shifting organizations / S.L. Brown, K.M. Eisenhardt -- The convergence of planning and execution: improvisation in new product development / C. Moorman, A.S. Miner -- Once again: what, when, how and why: a prospectus for research in organization improvisation / J.V. Cunha, K.N. Kamoche, M.P. Cunha.