With today’s increasing pace of change, managers who are struggling to continuously adapt and survive are turning to an emerging management technique known as organizational improvisation. This field of management science draws from a metaphor based in improvisational theatre and jazz music and is defined as: The ability to spontaneously recombine knowledge, processes and structure in real time...

Recent environmental turbulence including financial crisis, intensified competitive forces, rapid technological change and high market turbulence have dramatically changed the current business climate. The managers firms have to plan and decide what the best approaches that best fit their firms in order to pursue superior performance. This research aims to examine the influence of strategic rea...

We discuss how Boden’s creative processes of combination, exploration, and transformation naturally emerge in models that learn musical improvisation via stochastic transduction grammar induction. Unlike a conventional monolingual grammar, a transduction grammar represents complex transformative relationships between one representation language and another. For musical improvisation, a transduc...

This paper develops a conceptual framework to examine how enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems may affect knowledge capabilities that enable organizational improvisation. Drawing upon research into knowledge integration, improvisation and communities of practice, a new concept, minimal structures of knowledge, is introduced. In jazz improvisation, minimal structures (e.g., jazz chord prog...

In this paper a collaborative music game for two pen tablets is studied in order to see how two people with no professional music background negotiated musical improvisation. In an initial study of what it is that constitutes play fluency in improvisation, a music game has been designed and evaluated through video analysis: A qualitative view of mutual action describes the social context of mus...

We can program a Real-Time (RT) music improvisation system in C++ without a formal semantic or we can model it with process calculi such as the Non-deterministic Timed Concurrent Constraint (ntcc) calculus. “A Concurrent Constraints Factor Oracle (FO) model for Music Improvisation” (Ccfomi) is an improvisation model specified on ntcc. Since Ccfomi improvises non-deterministically, there is no c...

Changes in information-technology outsourcing (ITO) are often challenging. Critical to success is integrating knowledge efficiently between the client and vendor. Some of these changes are novel and unpredictable, “stormy” events where past knowledge offers little guidance, and existing practices lose value. Improvisation has been suggested as a complementary means for such situations. However,...

Information Security (IS) practitioners face increasingly unanticipated challenges in IS risk management, often pushing them to act extemporaneously. Few studies have been dedicated to examining the role these extemporaneous actions play in mitigating IS risk. Studies have focused on clear guidelines and policies as sound approaches to ISRM (functionalist approaches). When IS risk incidents occ...

This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artiicial agents, with applications to interactive story and dialogue systems. We argue that linguistic style is a key aspect of character, and show how speech act representations common in AI can provide abstract representations from which computer characters can impro...