Introduction Improvisation in organizations: A convocation, a celebration, and an invitation

Anne Miner, António Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Dusya Vera, and Miguel Pina e Cunha

DOI: 10.4324/9781003171768-1

Introduction

During the period of assembling this volume, the world faced the COVID-19 global pandemic's startling and unexpected events, with heroic and horrific outcomes on worldwide scale. Some governments, healthcare systems, and individuals improvised effectively and saved possibly millions of lives; others improvised poorly and failed to prevent millions of deaths or disabling illnesses (see Management Learning's Special Issue on “Improvising as the New Normal during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Organizational learning-by-responding, power ...

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