The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations

19 Theatrical improvisation for organizational improvisation education

Eduardo P. B. Davel and Fernanda P. M. Barbosa

DOI: 10.4324/9781003171768-24

Introduction

Organizational improvisation (OI) has become both a consolidated field of research in management science (e.g., Abrantes et al., 2022; Ciuchta et al., 2020; Crossan & Sorrenti, 1997; Cunha & Cunha, 2008; Cunha et al., 1999; Hadida et al., 2015; Kamoche et al., 2002; Weick, 1989) and a key capability for contemporary organizing and managing. Improvisational skills are inseparable from key activities in the managerial world: entrepreneurship (Balachandra, 2019), marketing (Borah et al., 2020), reflexivity (Abrantes et al., 2021b), strategy making (Falkheimer & Sandberg, 2018), and organizational ...