13 Organizational improvisation in project management
Organizational improvisation is a recognized addition to the taxonomy of working styles. It is accepted as an effective means of intervening, delivering, and achieving in many domains, including change management (Leybourne, 2006a; 2006b, 2007), complex adaptive systems (Ford, 2008), entrepreneurship (Hmieleski & Corbett, 2003, 2006), innovation (Crossan, 1997), new product development (Akgün & Lynn, 2002; Akgün et al., 2007; Miner et al., 2001), and product innovation (Kyriakopoulos, 2011), and with different skill sets, including creativity (Leybourne & Warburton, 2012), complexity (Montuori, 2003), intuition (Leybourne & Sadler-Smith, ...
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