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- Title
Improvisation and Learning in Organizations- An Opportunity for Future Empirical Research.
- Authors
Vendelø, Morten Thanning
- Abstract
Since the mid 1990s improvisation in organizations has attracted increasingly more attention from scholars of organizations, but in Management Learning, articles investigating learning and improvisation in organizations are absent, even if reviews of the literature on organizational improvisation suggest close links between the two concepts. Hence, there appears to be room for scholars to pursue empirical studies of connections between improvisation and learning in organizations, and thus, the purpose of this article is to provide inspiration for production and publication of such studies in Management Learning. First, the article presents a commonly accepted definition of improvisation. Thereafter, it looks at connections between improvisation and learning in organizations, and it describes recent empirical research investigating relationships between learning and improvisation in organizations. It then addresses challenges facing scholars of improvisation and learning in organization, and finally, it identifies interesting organizational contexts for empirical studies of improvisation and learning in organizations.
- Subjects
LEARNING; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; SCHOLARS; EMPIRICAL research; MANAGEMENT Learning (Periodical); PERIODICAL publishing; LITERATURE reviews; ORGANIZATIONAL learning; EDUCATION
- Publication
Management Learning, 2009, Vol 40, Issue 4, p449
- ISSN
1350-5076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1350507609339684