Session Summary

Session Number:166
Session ID:S29
Session Title:From Theatre to Management: Reflections on Second City Improvisation Company
Short Title:Second City Improv. Co
Session Type:Theme Session
Hotel:Hyatt East
Floor:LL2
Room:GndBall A
Time:Monday, August 09, 1999 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Sponsors

AA  (Peter Smith Ring)pring@popmail.lmu.edu 310-338-7411 

General People

Organizer Marino, Nancy  The Second City nmarino.secondcity.com 416-343-0033 
Chair Crossan, Mary M. U. of Western Ontario, Ivey School of Business mcrossan@ivey.uwo.ca 519-661-3217 
Discussant Hatch, Mary Jo Cranfield U. m.j.hatch@cranfield.ac.uk 44 (0)1234 754356 
Discussant Miner, Anne  U. of Wisconsin, Madison aminer@bus.wisc.edu (608) - 263-4143 
Discussant Weick, Karl E. U. of Michigan Karl_Weick@ccmail.bus.umich.edu (734)763-1339 
Presenter Yanow, Dvora  California State U., Hayward dyanow@csuhayward.edu (510) - 885 - 3726 

Submissions

Abstract

Whether in the classroom or boardroom, it has become essential to blend traditional skills of planning and analytical foresight with the ability to respond in the moment to problems and opportunities as they arise. Improvisation is where planning intersects real-time problems and opportunities. Although improvisation has been evident in the arts, it has more recently been acknowledged as an important area of management research. This session builds on the successful Vancouver All-Academy session on jazz improvisation. It extends the domain of experience to theatre improvisation and tackles theoretical issues related to improvisation at several levels of action and analysis. The world-renowned Second City Improvisation Company, whose home is Chicago, will demonstrate the art of improvisation. Academics who have been studying and publishing work on improvisation will reflect on, and discuss the application of theatre improvisation to teaching, management and organization theory, and management practice.