Exploring the empty spaces of organizing: How improvisational jazz helps redescribe organizational structure

Organization Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-100

  Hatch, Mary Jo ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Improvisation; Jazz metaphor; Organizational structure; Redescription

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040799937     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840699201004     Document Type: Article

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