Notes on improvisation and time in organizations
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Auteurs : Claudio U. Ciborra [Royaume-Uni]Source :
- Accounting, Management and Information Technologies [ 0959-8022 ] ; 1999.
Abstract
Business Process Re-engineering has not been able to eradicate improvisation from economic organizations. On the ashes of this failed program of modernization, it is high time to take a serious look at the phenomenon of improvisation: its structure, dynamics and forms of occurrence in both emergency and routine situations. The study of such a ubiquitous human practice reveals that even in highly structured organizations improvisation is a well grounded process that can be leveraged to face those situations where rules and methods fail. Improvisation, seen as an ex-temporaneous process, opens up alternative approaches to cope with time in business. `Lifting out' the constraints posed by clock time, one can envisage the importance of those `moments of vision' that represent the elusive core of entrepreneurial behaviour. In the background of impromptu action, as well as of a more authentic notion of time, lies what is missing from the managerial models in good currency: human existence and experience.
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