Theatrical Improvisation: Lessons for Organizations

By Dusya Vera, Mary M. Crossan. 2004

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Shaping tasks and relationships at work: Examining the antecedents and consequences of employee job crafting (2007, background): “Finally, research on organizational improvisation provides insights on how action emerges in groups and organizations (Hutchins, 1991; Miner et al., 2001; Vera & Crossan, 2004).”
Firm innovation and supply chain resilience: a dynamic capability perspective (2020, background): “…Wei and Wang (2011), Hult, Ketchen Jr, and Slater (2005), Bock et al. (2012), Amabile and Khaire (2008), Goodstein, Boeker, and Stephan (1996), Vera and Crossan (2004), Fantazy, Kumar, and Kumar (2009), Grawe, Daugherty, and Roath (2011), Combe et al. (2012), Matook, Lasch, and Tamaschke…”
Creative Leadership: A Multi-Context Conceptualization† (2015, background): “Vera and Crossan (2004) used the improvisational theater metaphor to inform organizational practice.”
Improvisation in Product Innovation: The Contingent Role of Market Information Sources and Memory Types (2011, background): “Building on concepts from diverse fields such as jazz and theatre, conceptual work converges on the extemporaneous nature of improvisation (e.g. Moorman & Miner, 1998a; Vera & Crossan, 2004; Weick, 1998).”
Living Leadership: A Systemic Constructionist Approach (2008, background): “Surprisingly little is known about the way leadership actors improvise within conversation, with the majority of the research focusing on the way leadership actors can develop minimally enabling structures for action and foster experimental cultures (Cunha et al., 2003; Vera & Crossan, 2005).”
Paying Attention to Mindfulness and Its Effects on Task Performance in the Workplace (2011, background): “…(Hmieleski & Corbett, 2003), and consultants (Vera & Crossan, 2005), as well as to behaviors exhibited in artistic domains including jazz (Berliner, 1994) and theater (Vera & Crossan, 2004), a common element among these contexts is the dynamic task environment that individuals tend to encounter.”