The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367771128 ISBN 13: 9780367771126

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367771128
• ISBN 13: 9780367771126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Pina E Cunha Miguel, Vera Dusya, Cunha Meneses Abrantes António, Miner Anne