3 The importance of referents for advancing improvisation theory and methods
Organizational improvisation, the convergence of design and execution of the organizational action (Miner et al., 2001), has captured management scholars' imagination and theoretical attention for over three decades. The study of improvisation in organizational analysis emerged from the desire for more fully developed theories of organizational emergence and adaptation (Moorman & Miner, 1998b; Weick, 1998) and from analogical reasoning applied to artistic performances in both the jazz (Perry, 1991) and theater (Crossan, 1998), with recent improvisation theory development coming from ...
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