In this paper, we explore how improvisation is experienced by people in organizations, conceptualizing improvisation as a creative process. We draw on a small number of scholarly accounts of the experience of improvising in organizations, and compare and contrast them with accounts from the performing arts. In both cases, improvising evokes simultaneous exhilaration and fear, as well as experiences of non-goal-directed action. In many organizational contexts, however, improvisation is normatively discouraged, which heightens the fearful aspect of the experience. This leads many workers to avoid improvising, using it as a method of last resort and even hiding its use. Thus, improvisation is seldom used in favorable circumstances nor practice...
Copyright © 2008 by PrAcademics Press.Improvisation is being presented as a relevant process in orga...
Research has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can be harnessed to encou...
International audienceResearch has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can...
The article demonstrates how the most frequent rationales for the application of improvisation in p...
Research has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can be harnessed to encou...
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Improvisation is too simple a name for a complex class of processes. T...
In this article, the authors review the growing body of literature on organizational improvisation i...
This study has emerged from the need to apply certain criteria to applicants to the New Enterprise I...
Advisors: Jorge Jeria.Committee members: Laura Johnson; Kristen Myers.The purpose of this study was ...
Abstract: This paper considers the evolving literature on Organizational Improvisation, considering ...
© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to describe the hidden presence of impr...
This study has emerged from the need to apply certain criteria to applicants to the New Enterprise I...
The article discusses the concept of organisational improvisation and reveals why it is important fo...
Research has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can be harnessed to enco...
Copyright © 2008 by PrAcademics Press.Improvisation is being presented as a relevant process in orga...
Copyright © 2008 by PrAcademics Press.Improvisation is being presented as a relevant process in orga...
Research has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can be harnessed to encou...
International audienceResearch has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can...
The article demonstrates how the most frequent rationales for the application of improvisation in p...
Research has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can be harnessed to encou...
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Improvisation is too simple a name for a complex class of processes. T...
In this article, the authors review the growing body of literature on organizational improvisation i...
This study has emerged from the need to apply certain criteria to applicants to the New Enterprise I...
Advisors: Jorge Jeria.Committee members: Laura Johnson; Kristen Myers.The purpose of this study was ...
Abstract: This paper considers the evolving literature on Organizational Improvisation, considering ...
© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to describe the hidden presence of impr...
This study has emerged from the need to apply certain criteria to applicants to the New Enterprise I...
The article discusses the concept of organisational improvisation and reveals why it is important fo...
Research has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can be harnessed to enco...
Copyright © 2008 by PrAcademics Press.Improvisation is being presented as a relevant process in orga...
Copyright © 2008 by PrAcademics Press.Improvisation is being presented as a relevant process in orga...
Research has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can be harnessed to encou...
International audienceResearch has identified improvisation as a creative and open activity that can...