Jazz Improvisation and Organizing: Once More from the Top

By M. Zack. 2000

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The "Third Hand": IT-Enabled Competitive Advantage in Turbulence Through Improvisational Capabilities (2010, background): “…mostly used jazz or theater as a metaphor for improvisation (e.g., Hatch 1998, Weick 1993, 1998), the goal of musicians is to intentionally come up with new music, while organizations need to cautiously change to match new environments while maintaining their stability and structure (Zack 2000).”
What Are We Playing at? Theatre, Organization, and the Use of Metaphor (2004, background): “…I have spelled out in some detail here, other metaphors, including the metaphors of chaos (for example, Thiétart and Forgues 1995), jazz (for example, Zack 2000), organizational mind (for example, Weick and Roberts 1993), and organizational memory (for example, Walsh and Ungson 1991), readily…”
Improvisation and Innovative Performance in Teams (2005, background): “Finally, there are different degrees of improvisation (Weick 1998, Zack 2000).”