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Cunha, Miguel Pina e Clegg, Stewart 0969-6474 Emerald Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Education http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tlo-07-2018-0126 <jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>This paper aims to describe the hidden presence of improvisation in organizations. The authors explore this presence through George Perec’s notion of the infra-ordinary applied to the study of the learning organization and its paradoxes.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>Most studies of paradox and improvisation are qualitative and inductive. In this conceptual paper, the authors offer a conceptual debate aiming to redirect conceptual attention on studies belonging to the domains of learning, improvisation and paradox.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>The authors defend the thesis that improvisation is an example of a paradoxical practice that belongs to the domain of infra-ordinary rather than, as has been habitually assumed in extant research, the extraordinary.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Research limitations/implications</jats:title><jats:p>The study draws research attention to the potential of the infra-ordinary in the domains of paradox, improvisation and learning.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Practical implications</jats:title><jats:p>For practice, the study shows that improvisation can be a relatively trivial organizational practice as people try to solve problems in their everyday lives.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Social implications</jats:title><jats:p>Most organizations depend upon the capacity of their members to solve problems as these emerge. Yet, organization theory has failed to consider this dimension. As a result, organizations may be unintentionally harming their capacity to learn and adapt to environments by assuming that improvisation is extra-ordinary.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>The study of paradox and improvisation from an infra-ordinary perspective has not been explicitly attempted.</jats:p></jats:sec> Improvisation in the learning organization: a defense of the infra-ordinary The Learning Organization |
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| spelling | Cunha, Miguel Pina e Clegg, Stewart 0969-6474 Emerald Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Education http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tlo-07-2018-0126 <jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>This paper aims to describe the hidden presence of improvisation in organizations. The authors explore this presence through George Perec’s notion of the infra-ordinary applied to the study of the learning organization and its paradoxes.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>Most studies of paradox and improvisation are qualitative and inductive. In this conceptual paper, the authors offer a conceptual debate aiming to redirect conceptual attention on studies belonging to the domains of learning, improvisation and paradox.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>The authors defend the thesis that improvisation is an example of a paradoxical practice that belongs to the domain of infra-ordinary rather than, as has been habitually assumed in extant research, the extraordinary.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Research limitations/implications</jats:title><jats:p>The study draws research attention to the potential of the infra-ordinary in the domains of paradox, improvisation and learning.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Practical implications</jats:title><jats:p>For practice, the study shows that improvisation can be a relatively trivial organizational practice as people try to solve problems in their everyday lives.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Social implications</jats:title><jats:p>Most organizations depend upon the capacity of their members to solve problems as these emerge. Yet, organization theory has failed to consider this dimension. As a result, organizations may be unintentionally harming their capacity to learn and adapt to environments by assuming that improvisation is extra-ordinary.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>The study of paradox and improvisation from an infra-ordinary perspective has not been explicitly attempted.</jats:p></jats:sec> Improvisation in the learning organization: a defense of the infra-ordinary The Learning Organization |
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