The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pina E Cunha, Miguel; Miner, Anne; Cunha Meneses Abrantes, António; Vera, Dusya

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000933796
• Artikelnr.: 68493501

Autorenporträt

Miguel Pina e Cunha is the Fundação Amélia de Mello Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Dusya Vera is a Professor of Strategy, the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Chair in Leadership, and the Executive Director of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey Business School at Western University, Canada. António Cunha Meneses Abrantes is an Associate Professor at TBS Business School, France. He is also Chair of the Team Performance Management track of EURAM. Anne Miner is a Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Improvisation in organizations: A convocation, a celebration and an invitation Anne S. Miner, António Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Dusya Vera, and Miguel Pina e Cunha

Part 1. Conceptual linkages

1. Improvisation and bricolage: Similarities and differences between two approaches to resource scarcity Ricardo Coelho da Silva, Leid Zejnilovic, and Pedro Oliveira

2. Eight paradoxical tensions of organizational improvisation



Miguel Pina e Cunha, Medhanie Gaim, and Stewart Clegg



3. The Importance of Referents for Advancing Improvisation Theory and Methods



Jay O'Toole, Indria Handoko, and Hendro A. Tjaturpriono



4. The improvisation-serendipity nexus



Miguel Pina e Cunha and Marco Berti



Part 2. Improvisation process: Before, during and after

5. The improvisational arc: A sensemaking perspective



António Cunha Meneses Abrantes and Olivier Berthod



6. Preparing to be spontaneous for effective organizational improvisation



Ace V. Simpson and Stewart Clegg



7. Character and improvisation: A recursive relationship



Corey Crossan, Mary Crossan, and Cassie Ellis



8. Improvisational decision making: Context, antecedents, and outcomes



Dusya Vera, Pooya Tabesh, Susana Velez-Castrillon, Ariff Kachra, and Steve Werner



9. Improvisation, routine dynamics, and temporal regularity



Kenneth T. Goh and Claus Rerup



10. Practising strategizing: Novelty as a leap of faith expanding learning and improvising



Elena P. Antonacopoulou



Part 3. Improvisation in specific contexts

11. Improvisation in Africa



Emanuel Gomes



12. Locating improvisation in public service management: Past, present, and future research directions



Ian R. Hodgkinson and Paul Hughes



13. Organizational improvisation in project management



Stephen A. Leybourne



14. Professional service firms: Why is improvisation so important?



Muriel Faden



15. Team leadership, momentum, and improvisation in extreme contexts



Bjarke Aage and Stefan Meisiek



16. Managing improvisation in dispersed settings



Massimo Magni and Likoebe Maruping



Part 4. Improvisational theater beyond metaphor

17. Improvisation as a design for organizational emergence



Lukas Zenk, Ralf Wetzel, and Markus F. Pesch

18. Improvisational theater in organizations: Between company expectations and effects on individuals and teams



Cynthia Zabel and René Mauer



19. Theatrical improvisation for organizational improvisation education



Eduardo P. B. Davel and Fernanda P. M. Barbosa



Part 5. Improvisation and new organizational forms

20. Improvising around and about boundaries in open organizations



Antonio Daood and Luca Giustiniano



21. Agility and improvisation



Allègre L. Hadida and Nathan O. Odiase



22. Flow with the go: Real-time continuous improvisation in digital business ecosystems



Pernille Rydén and Omar A. El Sawy



23. Advancing improvisation within entrepreneurship research



Michael P. Ciuchta, Lani Faith Gacula, and Cintya Gajardo-Vejar



Part 6. Conceptual expansions and conclusions

24. Improvisation: A taste of chaos in the middle of order and a taste of order in the middle of chaos



Pedro Marques-Quinteiro and Rita Rueff-Lopes



25. Strategic improvisation in loosely coupled systems



Victor Meyer Jr. and Diórgenes Falcão Mamédio



26. Improvisation in organizations: A review with a phenomenological research agenda



Demetris Hadjimichael



27. Why ever stop improvising? Why endings matter for theory and practice



Anne S. Miner and Jay O'Toole



Epilogue - Improvisation in organizations: Looking ahead



Dusya Vera, António Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Anne S. Miner, and Miguel Pina e Cunha

Rezensionen

"A stunning consolidation of significant work on Organizational Improvisation. This is the definitive discussion that positions improvisation as a foundation for organization studies and practices. The book models the ways in which a deeper analysis of adaptive improvisational coping can unfold." Karl Weick, Ross School of Business and University of Michigan, USA.