The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations

1 Improvisation and bricolage Similarities and differences between two approaches to resource scarcity¹

Ricardo Coelho da Silva, Leid Zejnilovic, and Pedro Oliveira

DOI: 10.4324/9781003171768-3

Introduction

For the past three decades, there has been much research about how individuals, teams, and organizations face time and resource constraints in periods of scarcity. Two close research streams are commonly at the heart of those discussions. One is about improvisation, defined as the degree to which composition and execution converge in time (Baker et al., 2003; Miner et al., 2001; Moorman & Miner, 1998), or as the conception of unhindered action as it unfolds, by an organization or its members, often (yet not exclusively) in response to ...