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The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations
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The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations

by Miguel Pina e Cunha, Dusya Vera, António Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Anne Miner
September 2023
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
22h 37m
English
Routledge
Content preview from The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations

27 Why ever stop improvising? Why endings matter for theory and practice

Anne Miner and Jay O’Toole

DOI: 10.4324/9781003171768-34

Organizational improvisation (OI) theorists have offered compelling evidence for potential triggers and antecedents for highly improvisational activity. Reviews by Ciuchta et al. (2021), Hadida et al. (2015), and Cunha et al. (1999) list triggers such as unexpected events and other disruptions in the external environment, some of which represent problems and others of which represent opportunities. Prior research also suggests that individuals vary in their improvisational behavioral tendencies (Hmieleski & Corbett, 2006; 2008; Hmieleski et al., 2013). Qualitative field studies offer granular accounts of factors ...

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ISBN: 9781000933826