Experiencing risk, spontaneity and improvisation in organizational change :
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[Book]
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working live /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Patricia Shaw and Ralph Stacey.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xiv, 145 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Complexity as the experience of organizing
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : working live / Patricia Shaw -- Theater, improvisation and social change / Preben Friis and Henry Larsen -- Risk and 'acting' into the unknown / Henry Larsen -- Presence and spontaneity in improvisational work / Preben Friis -- Leading in the moment : taking risks and living with anxiety / David Walker -- Complex responsive processes as a theory of organizational improvisation / Ralph Stacey.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 t.
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Experiencing risk, spontaneity and improvisation in organizational change.