Experiencing Risk, Spontaneity and Improvisation in Organizational Change: Working Live

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Patricia Shaw, Ralph D. Stacey
Taylor & Francis, 2006 - Počet stran: 145

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.

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working live
1
The emergence of legitimizing explanations
12
Theatre improvisation and social change
19
Other ways of understanding improvisation in theatre work
33
Relating organizational improvisation to theatre improvisation
39
Risk and acting into the unknown
46
Editors introduction to Chapter 4
73
Theatre improvisation
80
taking risks and living with anxiety
97
First steering group meeting
103
the challenge leading to a moment of meeting
114
Complex responsive processes as a theory of organizational
124
Index
142
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