Organizational Improvisation and Learning: A Field Study

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The American Economic Review

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The constitution of society

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Organizational Learning

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The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster

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The Management of Innovation

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The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies

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Doing Qualitative Research

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Technical Change and Economic Theory.

1989 • 3,877 citations

MAKING FAST STRATEGIC DECISIONS IN HIGH-VELOCITY ENVIRONMENTS.

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: PAST RESEARCH, PRESENT FINDINGS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

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Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective

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Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge

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Interpretive Barriers to Successful Product Innovation in Large Firms

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The social psychology of creativity

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Technical change and economic theory

1989 • 2,265 citations

Adaptation on Rugged Landscapes

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Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Notes from a Trip Down Memory Lane

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Technology as an occasion for structuring: evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments

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Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments

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The Social Psychology of Creativity

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Looking Forward and Looking Backward: Cognitive and Experiential Search

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Ethnography: Step-by-Step

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Innovations and organizations

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Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change

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Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations

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Organizations Evolving

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Strategy Formation in an Adhocracy

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Fading Memories: A Process Theory of Strategic Business Exit in Dynamic Environments

1994 • 1,026 citations

Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

1992 • 983 citations

Organizational Improvisation and Organizational Memory

1998 • 966 citations

Introductory Essay—Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis

1998 • 930 citations

The Impact of Organizational Memory on New Product Performance and Creativity

1997 • 899 citations

Thinking in Jazz

1994 • 846 citations

Hindsight: Biased judgments of past events after the outcomes are known.

1990 • 814 citations

Innovations of and in Organizations

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Thinking in jazz: the infinite art of improvisation

1995 • 774 citations

The Convergence of Planning and Execution: Improvisation in New Product Development

1998 • 759 citations

Speeding Products to Market: Waiting Time to First Product Introduction in New Firms

1990 • 754 citations

Variation and Selective retention in Socio-Cultural Evolution

1965 • 707 citations

Cognition and Improvisation: Differences in Mathematics Instruction by Expert and Novice Teachers

1989 • 689 citations

Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis

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The Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations

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Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies

1996 • 558 citations

Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations

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Implementing routine and radical innovations

1986 • 494 citations

Learning the Innovation Journey: Order out of Chaos?

1996 • 483 citations

Advances in strategic management

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Organizational Improvisation: What, When, How and Why

1999 • 478 citations

Organizing Work by Adaptation

1991 • 457 citations

Generative processes in music: the psychology of performance, improvisation, and composition

2001 • 445 citations

Book Review

2002 • 435 citations

The Impact of Organizational Memory on New Product Performance and Creativity

1997 • 426 citations

Learning While Innovating

1992 • 424 citations

Redundant, Overlapping Organization: A Japanese Approach to Managing the Innovation Process

1990 • 393 citations

The Convergence of Planning and Execution: Improvisation in New Product Development

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Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

1972 • 274 citations

Strategies for interpreting qualitative data

1995 • 273 citations

Lectures In The Sciences Of Complexity

1989 • 267 citations

The innovation marathon: lessons from high technology firms

1991 • 252 citations

Strategies for Interpreting Qualitative Data

1995 • 245 citations

Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readings

1996 • 213 citations

Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Art

1984 • 205 citations

How attending physicians make instructional decisions when conducting teaching rounds

1992 • 191 citations

Idiosyncratic Jobs in Formalized Organizations

1987 • 177 citations

Organizational Redesign As Improvisation

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Cognitive Processes in Improvisation

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Requiem for a lightweight: The Northrop f‐20 strategic initiative

1990 • 160 citations

Management of Innovation

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Managing strategic innovation and change: A collection of readings

1997 • 140 citations

Structural Evolution Through Idiosyncratic Jobs: The Potential for Unplanned Learning

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Advances in managerial cognition and organizational information processing

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Ambiguity and Command: Organizational Perspectives on Military Decision Making

1986 • 127 citations

Clinical Decision Making by Experienced and Inexperienced Pediatric Physical Therapists for Children With Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

1996 • 94 citations

The Vancouver Academy of Management Jazz Symposium—Jazz as a Metaphor for Organizing in the 21st Century

1998 • 85 citations

What to Listen for in Jazz

1995 • 74 citations

Cooperation as communicative accomplishment: A symbolic interaction analysis of an improvised Jazz Concert

1992 • 71 citations

The innovation marathon: Lessons from high technology firms

1991 • 61 citations

Creative experience.

1930 • 46 citations

The origins of order-self-organization and selection in evolution

1996 • 40 citations

Organizational improvisation in new product development

1997 • 28 citations

Friends and Strangers: Early Hiring Practices and Idiosyncratic Jobs

1994 • 13 citations

Improvisation and Learning

2001 • 6 citations

Preface

1989 • 4 citations