What Can Knowledge-Creating Organisations Learn from Theatrical Improvisation?

Anna-Maija Nisula, Aino Kianto and Tatiana Andreeva
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Anna-Maija Nisula: LUT University
Aino Kianto: LUT University
Tatiana Andreeva: Maynooth University

A chapter in Knowledge Management, Arts, and Humanities, 2019, pp 55-75 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter amplifies the understanding of organisational knowledge creation by examining the creation of new knowledge through the lens of improvisation. Such an approach views knowledge creation as a spontaneous process where thinking and action converge and underlines the synthesis of diverse actors’ knowledge and perspectives in a flexible and agile manner through their engagement in social practice. To increase understanding of knowledge creation as an improvisational capacity, we turn to a context in which improvisation is employed systematically: the world of theatre. We explore how and when improvisation is utilised among theatre groups in their creative processes and associate forms of theatrical improvisation with three types of knowledge creation. The chapter enriches knowledge management literature by providing alternative models of knowledge creation, and also contributes to the emerging literature on arts-based management.

Keywords: Knowledge creation; Improvisation; Theatrical improvisation; Devising theatre; Improvisational theatre; Arts-based methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10922-6_4

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