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

Eli Berniker

Organization Science · 1998 · Volume 9 · Issue 5

DOI: 10.1287/orsc.9.5.583

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

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