The Routledge Companion To Improvisation In Organizations

Author : Miguel Pina e Cunha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Creative ability in business
ISBN : 0367775190

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The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations by Miguel Pina e Cunha Pdf

"This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments. Exploring theories of organizational action as well as contemporary challenges, it highlights improvisation's rich potential in theory building and practice. The value and relevance of improvisational capabilities and processes in organizations are more apparent than ever: the global pandemic has forced organizations to reinvent themselves and to adapt to dramatic change on a massive scale. This surge in improvised activity starkly illustrates how the capability to improvise is key to organizational resilience: organizations that are able to improvise effectively are better prepared to bounce back and even thrive. From the latest thinking on improvisation in organizations to future avenues for research, this volume demonstrates the rich potential for both theory building and practice, and provides a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in organizational strategy, entrepreneurship, product development, information systems, disaster management, and HRM"--

Author : Miguel Pina e Cunha,Dusya Vera,António Cunha Meneses Abrantes,Anne Miner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000933796

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The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations by Miguel Pina e Cunha,Dusya Vera,António Cunha Meneses Abrantes,Anne Miner Pdf

This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments. Exploring theories of organizational action as well as contemporary challenges, it highlights improvisation’s rich potential in theory building and practice. The value and relevance of improvisational capabilities and processes in organizations are more apparent than ever: the global pandemic has forced organizations to reinvent themselves and to adapt to dramatic change on a massive scale. This surge in improvised activity starkly illustrates how the capability to improvise is key to organizational resilience: organizations that are able to improvise effectively are better prepared to bounce back and even thrive. From the latest thinking on improvisation in organizations to future avenues for research, this volume demonstrates the rich potential for both theory building and practice and provides a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in organizational strategy, entrepreneurship, product development, information systems, disaster management, and HRM.

Author : Tudor Rickards,Mark A. Runco,Susan Moger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135978488

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The Routledge Companion to Creativity by Tudor Rickards,Mark A. Runco,Susan Moger Pdf

Comprising contributions written by a wide array of leading creativity scholars, The Routledge Companion to Creativity is an exciting collection of articles that assesses contemporary issues in creativity research and practice, and identifies key themes and trends.

Author : Arla Day,Cary L. Cooper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000961065

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The Routledge Companion to Mental Health at Work by Arla Day,Cary L. Cooper Pdf

The issue of mental health at work has become a hot topic in both the popular media and academic writings. Although job stress and mental ill-health are associated with negative outcomes for individuals, teams, and organizations, there has been some suggestion that changing the work environment and creating healthy workplaces can improve worker health. Much of the current works in the general of health is fractured, coming from a variety of disciplines and perspectives without an organizing framework to help guide research and practice in the area. Having this individualized, compartmentalized perspective constrains our ability to fully understand the scope of the issue, the key factors in supporting or detracting from one’s mental health, and interventions focusing on mental health at work. Given the importance of understanding mental health at work and the current lack of coverage on workplace mental health, there is a need for a book to provide a holistic overview of the issue targeting the environmental, individual, and group influences of mental health and well-being, as well as the impact on individuals and workplaces. This handbook provides a conceptual framework for examining these issues. Each chapter offers an in-depth examination of the key facets of mental health at work, focusing both on the seminal and current literature on the topic and practical suggestions for best practices for organizations. With contributions from leading experts, authors address the state-of-the-art research and integrate current events that are shaping the way we work and our wellbeing at work. This edited collection will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers, and advanced students in the fields of human resource management, organizational psychology, and management.

Author : Ken N. Kamoche,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Joao Vieira da Cunha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Organizational change
ISBN : 6610068380

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Organizational Improvisation by Ken N. Kamoche,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Joao Vieira da Cunha Pdf

Author : Chris Steyaert,Timon Beyes,Martin Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317918684

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The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education by Chris Steyaert,Timon Beyes,Martin Parker Pdf

The position and role of the business school and its educational programmes have become increasingly prominent, yet also questioned and contested. What management education entails, and how it is enacted, has become a matter of profound concern in the field of higher education and, more generally, for the development of the organized world. Drawing upon the humanities and social sciences, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education imagines a different and better education offered to students of management, entrepreneurship and organization studies. It is an intervention into the debates on what is taught and how learning takes place, demonstrating both the potential and the limits of what the humanities and social sciences can do for management education. Divided into six sections, the book traces the history and theory of management education, reimagining central educational principles and outlining an emerging practice-based approach. With an international cast of authors, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education has been written for contemporary and future educators and for students and scholars who seek to make a difference through their practice.

Author : David Knights,Helena Liu,Owain Smolović-Jones,Suze Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040024973

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The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies by David Knights,Helena Liu,Owain Smolović-Jones,Suze Wilson Pdf

The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies offers a rich and insightful overview of critical leadership studies for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners. The volume draws together 35 chapters from 56 authors who represent the vibrant diversity of the critical leadership community. It includes chapters from emerging and preeminent scholars who share an interest in directing leadership theorizing, development and practice toward the aims of liberation, justice, and equity. The Companion is organized into six themes: (1) philosophical perspectives on leadership; (2) processes, practices, and power dynamics in leadership; (3) diversity and leadership; (4) leadership education and development; (5) lessons from the dark side of leadership; and (6) reimagining leadership and leadership studies. The book has been curated to serve as a "go to" resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic staff, and researchers seeking to understand the current state of play on a given topic, as well as inspiration for how they might contribute to its development. Each chapter provides a comprehensive yet succinct review of contemporary literature and offers the reader avenues for future research. Leadership practitioners will also find provocative ideas among these pages to help them interrogate and transform the ways they lead.

Author : Tudor Rickards,Mark A. Runco,Susan Moger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135978471

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The Routledge Companion to Creativity by Tudor Rickards,Mark A. Runco,Susan Moger Pdf

Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational theory, but also defines the conditions in which creativity can flourish, and assesses how the contemporary business environment has an impact on creative solutions. The volume grounds the concept of creativity in a sound theoretical framework and explores issues of practical and theoretical consequence covering a range of themes, including: innovation and entrepreneurship creativity and design environmental influences knowledge management meta-theories of creativity personal creativity structured interventions. Comprising contributions written by an unusually wide array of leading creativity scholars, The Routledge Companion to Creativity is an insightful and cutting edge resource. It is an essential purchase for anyone with an interest in creativity from a business, psychology or design perspective.

Author : Medhanie Gaim,Stewart R. Clegg,Miguel Cunha
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529792782

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Organizational Paradoxes by Medhanie Gaim,Stewart R. Clegg,Miguel Cunha Pdf

This captivating book delves into the complex realm of management and organizational dynamics, focusing on the significance of paradoxes. From the intricate interplay between social obligations and business missions to the tension between stability and change, this textbook unveils the essence of these enduring contradictions. As organizations evolve, paradoxes become defining features, and illustrative cases of this are included throughout the textbook. Organizational Paradoxes equips students of organization management, organization change and strategy with an understanding of paradoxes, their philosophical underpinnings and their management in practice. Medhanie Gaim (PhD) is Associate Professor of Management at Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics, Sweden. Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership and a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology Sydney. Miguel Pina e Cunha is the Fundação Amélia de Mello chair professor at Nova School of Business and Economics, Nova University Lisbon, Portugal.

Author : Miguel Pina E. Cunha,Ken Kamoche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134506491

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Organizational Improvisation by Miguel Pina E. Cunha,Ken Kamoche Pdf

Confronted with rapid and unpredictable environments, contemporary organizations are becoming more aware of the benefits of improvisation. By improvising, organizations create the capacity to make sudden adaptive moves, thus adapting in real time to unexpected events. Organizational improvisation is thus a new and exciting area in terms of practice and research. Organizational improvisation has important implications for such subjects as product innovation, teamworking and organizational renewal, and this new book brings together some of the best and most thought-provoking papers published in recent years. Organizational improvisation is now emerging as one of the most important areas of organizational science, and this book provides a comprehensive collection suitable for students, researchers and practitioners alike. Frank J. Barrett Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Monterey, USA, David T. Bastien Minneapolis, USA, Shona L.

Author : Ted Baker,Friederike Welter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136218620

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The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship by Ted Baker,Friederike Welter Pdf

Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us. The purpose of this book is to map the research terrain of entrepreneurship, providing the perfect starting point for new and existing researchers looking to explore. Topics covered range from emerging perspective, through issues at the core of the field to innovative methodologies. Starting off with a preface by Bill Gartner, each section of the book brings together a world class set of established leading researchers and rising stars. This considered, comprehensive and conclusive companion integrates the recent debates in entrepreneurship research under one cover, to provide a resource which will be useful across disciplinary boundaries and for a whole range of students and researchers.

Author : Patricia Shaw,Ralph Stacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134266241

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Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life by Patricia Shaw,Ralph Stacey Pdf

The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power relating. The result is a way of thinking about life in organizations that focuses attention on how organizational members cope with the unknown as they perpetually create organizational futures together. This book introduces and explores the possible meanings of the idea of ‘working live’. It makes sense of the sense-making experience itself, drawing attention to the way ideas and concepts emerge ‘live’ in all conversations in organizations. An appreciation of the open-ended, improvisational nature of ongoing human communication becomes key to such an understanding. This book will be of great value to readers looking for reflective accounts of real life experiences in organizations, rather than further prescriptions of what life in organizations ought to be.

Author : Rebecca Bednarek,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Jonathan Schad,Wendy K. Smith
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781801171885

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Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox by Rebecca Bednarek,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Jonathan Schad,Wendy K. Smith Pdf

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is an innovative two-part volume that enriches our understanding about paradox. Part B continues the exploration of the why, how and where of interdisciplinary research within paradox theory by looking at the realms of social structure and expression.

Author : Meliha Handzic,Daniela Carlucci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030109226

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Knowledge Management, Arts, and Humanities by Meliha Handzic,Daniela Carlucci Pdf

This book presents a series of studies that demonstrate the value of interactions between knowledge management with the arts and humanities. The carefully compiled chapters show, on the one hand, how traditional methods from the arts and humanities – e.g. theatrical improvisation, clay modelling, theory of aesthetics – can be used to enhance knowledge creation and evolution. On the other, the chapters discuss knowledge management models and practices such as virtual knowledge space (BA) design, social networking and knowledge sharing, data mining and knowledge discovery tools. The book also demonstrates how these practices can yield valuable benefits in terms of organizing and analyzing big arts and humanities data in a digital environment.

Author : Tonya Henderson,David M. Boje
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317626077

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Organizational Development and Change Theory by Tonya Henderson,David M. Boje Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective on organizational development and change theory and practice. Building on their recent work in quantum storytelling theory and complexity theory, Henderson and Boje consider the implications of fractal patterns in human behavior with a view toward ethics in organization development for the modern world. Building on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s (1987) ontology of multiple moving and intersecting fractal processes, the authors offer readers an understanding of how managing and organizing can be adapted to cope with the turbulence and complexity of different organizational situations and environments. They advocate a sustainable, co-creative brand of agency and introduce appropriate, simple tools to support organizational development practitioners. This book offers theory and research methods to management and organization scholars, along with praxis advice to practicing managers.