The complexity of improvisation and the improvisation of complexity: Social science, art and creativity

Human Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-255

  Montuori, Alfonson ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Complexity; Creativity; Disorder; Improvisation; Order organizational theory; Social science

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037329136     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726703056002893     Document Type: Article

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