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Cover Elgar Introduction to Organizational Improvisation Theory
Elgar Introduction to Organizational Improvisation Theory
António Abrantes
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Miguel Cunha
, and
Anne Miner

Much has been researched and written about the emergence of improvisation processes within organizational contexts. Although still scarce, research on organizational improvisation has evolved from a jazz and theater metaphor to empirical and conceptual organizational frameworks, creating a consolidated organizational theoretical body. This Elgar Introduction discusses major theoretical advances in organizational improvisation, which the authors view as the process of improvisation that occurs within an organizational context, whether at the individual, team, or organizational level. Grounded in rigorous academic work to date, this book speaks both to scholars interested in developing research on organizational improvisation and to managers who face rapid change with crucial consequences.

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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
10 Jun 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800370234
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Business 2022
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Creativities
The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process
Chris Bilton
,
Stephen Cummings
, and
dt ogilvie

What is creativity and how can we best nurture creativity in different contexts? Drawing on a wide range of cases from the arts, business, design, media and sports, Creativities encourages readers to discover, mix, and adapt their own version of creativity, rather than attempting to imitate or follow ‘best practice’.

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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Jun 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979481
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Business 2022
Cover Organizing Independence
Organizing Independence
Negotiations between Journalism and Management in News Organizations
Elena Raviola
This revealing book goes behind the scenes of normative principles of media independence to investigate how that independence is actually practiced and realized in everyday working life. Taking an ethnographically rich journey through European news organizations, Elena Raviola exposes the diverse and complex ways in which the ideal of independence is upheld, and at the same time inevitably betrayed, in the organizational life of media companies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
04 Feb 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802200379
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Business 2022
Cover Big Data in Small Business
Big Data in Small Business
Data-Driven Growth in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Editors:
Carsten Lund Pedersen
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Adam Lindgreen
,
Thomas Ritter
, and
Torsten Ringberg
This important book considers the ways in which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can thrive in the age of big data. To address this central issue from multiple viewpoints, the editors introduce a collection of experiences, insights, and guidelines from a variety of expert researchers, each of whom provides a piece to solve this puzzle.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
21 Sep 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100161
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Business 2021
Cover Organizational Innovation
Organizational Innovation
Theory, Research, and Direction
Fariborz Damanpour
This comprehensive book synthesizes research from the past 50 years of innovation studies, addressing the main elements of innovation and providing a connected perspective on innovation within organizations. It explores the generation and adoption of both technological and nontechnological innovations, offering a coherent and systematic view of the process. Insights from behavioral, economic and structure-based perspectives are used to explain existing findings and help the reader navigate current research, as well as offering ideas and frameworks to guide new studies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
15 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117449
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Business 2020
Cover The Imagined Organization
The Imagined Organization
Spaces, Dreams and Places
Monika Kostera
This book represents a narrative quest for a symbolic grounding to help leaders in times when stable social structures and institutions dissolve and disappear. Monika Kostera approaches this sense-making process through innovative research methods, collecting stories from participants and exploring plots and outcomes of an imagined meeting between two symbolic worlds: one of the internal and imaginative and the other of the external and corporate.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
11 May 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909876
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Business 2020
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Robotization of Work?
Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences
Barbara Czarniawska
and
Bernward Joerges
In this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired by automation, from the original coining of the term ‘robot’ to the present day media fascination. Have these hopes and fears changed or do they remain the same? This discerning book investigates whether these changes in perception correlate to actual changes taking place in the field of robotics.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
09 Apr 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100956
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Business 2020
Cover Gender, Science and Innovation
Gender, Science and Innovation
New Perspectives
Editors:
Helen Lawton Smith
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Colette Henry
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Henry Etzkowitz
, and
Alexandra Poulovassilis
Gender, Science and Innovation explores the contemporary challenges facing women scientists in academia and develops effective strategies to improve gender equality. Addressing an important gap in current knowledge, chapters offer a range of international perspectives from diverse contexts, countries and institutional settings. This book is an essential contribution to the literature for academics, researchers and policy makers concerned with improving gender equality in academia and seeking to learn from the experiences of others.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
17 Jan 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438973
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Business 2020
Cover Big Data
Big Data
Promise, Application and Pitfalls
Editors:
John Storm Pedersen
and
Adrian Wilkinson
Big data and 'the package' of the digital society is de-mystified in this important book. A group of international experts frame the debates around big data and analyse its impact in different sectors in practice. They also examine whether big data and the digital society can deliver on its promises.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Nov 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112352
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Business 2019
Cover Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation
Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation
Editors:
Gry A. Alsos
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Ulla Hytti
, and
Elisabet Ljunggren
Innovation is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth creating prosperous nations and enabling technological development within industries and sectors This Handbook contributes to the field of innovation by providing a wide range of studies from different analytical and methodological perspectives and from various regional and industry contexts in order to pave the way forward. The multidisciplinary contributors discuss topics such as gender and innovation in new and small businesses, and growth businesses; addressing innovation in different organizational contexts ranging from public sector health care to mining and forestry; researching gender in innovation policy.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Sep 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478132
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Business 2016