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Measuring Organizational Resilience in a Resource‐Constrained Environment: An Empirical Study of Micro‐and‐Small‐Service‐Enterprises (MSSEs) in Nigeria

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is growing evidence that a preponderance of resilience indicators discussed in management scholarship is often developed with limited consideration of the context in which micro‐and‐small‐service enterprises (MSSEs) operate. Given their strategic relevance to developing economies, it thus becomes necessary to understand the meaning of ...
Justin Okoli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improvisation in teaching and education—roots and applications

open access: yesCogent Education, 2016
The main aim of this review article is to understand and discuss the concept of improvisation as a professional skill for teacher educators. The literature review suggests that five academic traditions are especially relevant to examine: Rhetoric, music,
Kari Holdhus   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organizational time: a dialectical view [PDF]

open access: yes
We present twelve propositions constituting a contribution to a contingency view of time in organizations and synthesize apparently opposite perspectives of time. To articulate them, we relate the planning, action and improvisation strategic orientations
Cunha, Miguel Pina e
core  

Using bricolage to facilitate emergent collectives in SMEs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Starting a new business is often done in a realm of improvisation if resources are scarce and the business horizon is far from clear. Strategic improvisation occurs when the design of novel activities unite.
Deschoolmeester, Dirk   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Management Control Systems, Bricolage, and Frugal Innovation: Effects on Value Creation in Startups With a Social Mission

open access: yesKnowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the effects of the management control systems (social networking and organic innovative culture), via bricolage and frugal innovation, in the social and economic value creation of startups with a social mission. Data from 118 Brazilian startups with a social mission were analyzed using structural equation modeling and fuzzy‐
Anderson Betti Frare, Ilse Maria Beuren
wiley   +1 more source

A dramaturgy of uncertainty: Transdisciplinary manoeuvres across forestry and theatre

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The uncertainties of climate change mean that forestry adaptation strategies are often complex and contested. Research has suggested that there is an interest in the forestry sector for facilitated dialogue about uncertainty (de Pellegrin Llorente et al., 2023).
Rachel Clive   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a typology of improvisation as a professional teaching skill: Implications for pre-service teacher education programmes

open access: yesCogent Education, 2017
In this article we discuss the concept of improvisation as a professional teaching skill. Our professional context is teacher education and our discussion is aimed at developing a categorized understanding, or rather a tentative typology, of what ...
Helga Aadland   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teacher Improvisation as Processes of Mosaic, Kaleidoscope and Rhizome – an arts-based, co-teaching approach

open access: yesJournal for Research in Arts and Sports Education, 2017
The aim for this article is, based on theory, and through practice, to generate awareness on an activity that many teachers perform; the practice of improvisation.
Hannah Kaihovirta
doaj   +1 more source

The Unexpected and Education: Curriculums for Creativity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We propose ourselves to argue about the importance of creating unexpected contexts as a strategy to promote creative processes in education. We have analyzed educational proposals by our team research and specialists’ theoretical issues in the field of ...
Donolo, Danilo Silvio   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Melodies of the forest: Nature as an improvisational space for shared creative embodiment

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In an era marked by increasing disconnection from nature, innovative approaches to reconnect with the environment are crucial for both ecological and psychological well‐being. This paper explores how natural environments (a deciduous forest of Quebec in the present case study) can serve as an improvisational space for shared creative ...
Antoine Bellemare‐Pepin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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