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- Title
Power, politics and improvisation: Learning during a prolonged crisis.
- Authors
Meisiek, Stefan; Stanway, Bonnie Rose
- Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has caught most organizations off guard. They have had to adapt their operations rapidly, and with the pandemic persisting, continuously improvise. While such an external jolt to organizations might unsettle operations, it does not remove the fact that organizations are sites of power relations and political activity. In this article, we examine the influence of power and politics on learning from improvisation, through a qualitative longitudinal case study of an Australian university during COVID-19. We trace improvisations with the use of the social media platform WeChat, which was eventually adopted, after several changes in forms of improvisation, as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study contributes to the literature on learning from improvisation, and explains how different forms of improvisation morph into one another under the simultaneous influence of power relations and learning.
- Subjects
HIGHER education; MANAGEMENT education; COVID-19 pandemic; ORGANIZATIONAL learning; SEMESTER system in education; SOCIAL distancing
- Publication
Management Learning, 2023, Vol 54, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
1350-5076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/13505076221119033