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Organizational Improvisation and Leadership - A Field Study in Two Computer-Mediated Settings

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  • Miguel Pina E. Cunha
  • Ken Kamoche
  • Rita Campos E. Cunha

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Drawing on empirical evidence collected in two case studies, we present a tentative model of leadership in a context of organizational improvisation. This article discusses the role of leadership in the process of improvisation, suggesting that opposite leadership behaviors are simultaneously integrated when an important task has to be performed in a turbulent environment with flexible resources. This type of leadership creates "minimal" social and task structures that, together with a perception of the task at hand as individually important to group members, invites the team to improvise. This model builds the argument for a dialectical perspective on organizations, highlights the role of important events as action generators, and underscores the presence of curvilinear relationships in organizational phenomena where linear ones are conventionally assumed.

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  • Miguel Pina E. Cunha & Ken Kamoche & Rita Campos E. Cunha, 2003. "Organizational Improvisation and Leadership - A Field Study in Two Computer-Mediated Settings," International Studies of Management & Organization, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(1), pages 34-57, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:33:y:2003:i:1:p:34-57
    DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2003.11043677
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    1. Valaei, Naser & Rezaei, Sajad & Ismail, Wan Khairuzzaman Wan, 2017. "Examining learning strategies, creativity, and innovation at SMEs using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis and PLS path modeling," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 224-233.
    2. Mariano, Stefania & Laker, Benjamin, 2024. "On-the-fly decision making within organizations: A systematic literature review and future research directions," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
    3. Miguel Pina e Cunha, 2005. "Bricolage in organizations," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp474, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.

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