Working the Jazz Metaphor: Musings Driving Down I-5 Past Midnight

Eli Berniker
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Eli Berniker: Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington 98447

Organization Science, 1998, vol. 9, issue 5, 583-585

Abstract: Applying unfettered but disciplined imagination to last night's Academy of Management 1995 session on the jazz metaphor, I asked: How would I design an organization as if it were a medium for improvisational jazz? I know that the design metaphor grates on some sensibilities. Bear with me. I am a tinkerer and bricoleur at heart. I write as thought emerged subject to minor editing.

Keywords: Metaphor; Organizing; Improvisation; Jazz (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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