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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.

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Author:   Miguel Pina e Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) ,  Dusya Vera (Western University, Canada) ,  António Cunha Meneses Abrantes (TBS Business School, France) ,  Anne Miner (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.150kg
ISBN:  

9780367771126

ISBN 10:   0367771128
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   20 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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"""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."

Author Information

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.

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