Organizational Improvisation - Softcover

Cunha, Miguel Pina E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415261767 ISBN 13: 9780415261760

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

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 alike.

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Synopsis:

Confronted with rapid and unpredictable environments, contemporary organizations are becoming more aware of the benefits of improvisation. By improvising, organizations create the capacity to make sudden adaptive moves, thus adapting in real time to unexpected events. Organizational improvisation is thus a new and exciting area in terms of practice and research. 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. Organizational improvisation is now emerging as one of the most important areas of organizational science, and this book provides a comprehensive collection suitable for students, researchers and practitioners alike. Frank J. Barrett Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Monterey, USA, David T. Bastien Minneapolis, USA, Shona L. Brown McKinsey and Company, Mary Crossan University of Wes

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415261767
• ISBN 13: 9780415261760
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328