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DESCRIPTION:Improvisation in Organizations: The Case of Task and Job Design
 \n\nPresented by Anne Miner\n\nProfessor Emerita at the University of Wisc
 onsin\n\nDate: Friday\, April 25\, 2025\n	Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (EST)\n	Lo
 cation: Bronfman building\, room 340\n\nRSVP by Friday\, April 18\, 2025\n
 \n(Participants are invited for a tea and topic on creating idiosyncratic 
 careers in academia Thursday\, April 24 from 3.00 – 5 pm)\n\n\nAbstract\n
 \nMany literatures still deeply embody the ‘vacancy assumption’ in which t
 he organization first designs a job or task\, and after that matches a per
 son to execute it. Overwhelming field evidence\, however\, reveals that jo
 bs/tasks are created or assembled in varied other ways (Cohen\, 2013). Som
 etimes the pattern enacted in a job or task is improvised. It is created w
 hile it is actually being performed\, one special form of job/task emergen
 ce. Improvisation is defined as the deliberate and substantive fusion of t
 he design and execution of a novel production (Miner et al.\, 2001). i.e. 
 a focal agent enacts a novel action pattern while designing that very patt
 ern.\n\nThis talk will pull from work that offers insight on two key issue
 s. (1) Is there scholarly evidence for a nontrivial presence of improvised
  jobs/tasks? (2) If so\, do such jobs/tasks have lasting impact\, in domai
 ns such as organizational structures\, recurring processes\, or career seq
 uences?\n\nMy own work began using an evolutionary theory lens to contempl
 ate these issues\, then moved on to a learning framework and now emphasize
 s the improvisation process. This lens forces attention to the question of
  how novel patterns are created\, in contrast to issues of how selection o
 r replication occurs once that has happened. I look forward to learning ho
 w/if these issues link to current work at ºÃÉ«TVl.\n	 \n\nAbout Anne Miner\n
 \nAnne Miner (BA Harvard University\, PhD Stanford University) is Professo
 r Emerita at the University of Wisconsin. Her current research explores or
 ganizational improvisation and learning processes. Specific research conte
 xts/processes include the evolution of jobs and product development\, lear
 ning from failure\, vicarious learning\, industry-level learning\, and evo
 lutionary models of change. The Technology and Innovation Management of th
 e Academy of Management named Miner the 2004 Scholar of the Year and Googl
 e Scholar shows more than 19\,000 citations to her work. Miner served as a
 n associate editor at Management Science and Organization Science\, on edi
 torial boards including the Administrative Science Quarterly\, Academy of 
 Management Journal\, Academy of Management Review\, American Sociological 
 Review\, Strategic Organization and as panelist for the NSF Decision\, Ris
 k and Management Science Division. She co-edited the Elgar Introduction to
  Organizational Improvisation (2022)\, and the Routledge Companion to Orga
 nizational Improvisation in Organizations (2024) and gave a keynote addres
 s at the 2024 Process Organization Studies (PROS) Symposium in Paphos\, Cy
 prus.\n\nMiner co-founded Wisconsin’s Initiative for Studies in Transforma
 tional Entrepreneurship (INSITE)\, the business curriculum in UW- Madison’
 s MS in Biotechnology and UW’s first entrepreneurship certificates program
 s. Before her PhD\, she previously served as the executive vice-president 
 for a tiny\, closely held California start-up and as University Affirmativ
 e Action Officer at Stanford in the office of the President.\n
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LOCATION:Room 340\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001
  rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Laurent Picard Distinguished Lecture:  Anne Miner
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