Time and organizational improvisation

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Crossan, M; Cunha, MPE; Vera, D; Cunha, J
• 署名单位: Universidade Nova de Lisboa; University of Houston System; University of Houston
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2005.15281441
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 129-145
• 关键词: JAZZ; management; routines

摘要

We argue that effective management action is impeded by a simplistic understanding of time-one dominated by a clock-time perspective. Using the concept of improvisation. we reconcile two major time dichotomies associated with organizational phenomena: clock time versus event time and linear time versus cyclical time. We propose that improvisation offers a means for management theorists and practictioners to overcome these apparent time dichotomies.