2009
DOI: 10.1177/1470593109346897
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Freedom and constraint in the empowerment as jazz metaphor

Abstract: This paper assesses the cultural diversity of improvisation. More specifically, it focuses upon the empowerment as jazz metaphor by highlighting a two-way process considering what marketers (including managers and empowered direct contact staff) and improvising jazz musicians can learn from each other. It examines the apparently polarized concepts of freedom and constraint by identifying how jazz guitarists differ on a hypothetical continuum in terms of the divergence of their performances, as demonstrated by … Show more

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“…However, this view leaves patients vulnerable to potentially damaging relationships, unconstrained by external expertise. Even in the arts, it is acknowledged that improvisation needs to be informed and disciplined 82 and that creativity for creativity’s sake is not enough 64 . Our comparison with the creative arts therefore needs to be balanced by appreciating, beyond aesthetic concerns, what creativity in communication contributes that is useful for patients and practitioners and by being alert to its dangers.…”
Section: Limitations Of Viewing Communication As a Creative Artmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, this view leaves patients vulnerable to potentially damaging relationships, unconstrained by external expertise. Even in the arts, it is acknowledged that improvisation needs to be informed and disciplined 82 and that creativity for creativity’s sake is not enough 64 . Our comparison with the creative arts therefore needs to be balanced by appreciating, beyond aesthetic concerns, what creativity in communication contributes that is useful for patients and practitioners and by being alert to its dangers.…”
Section: Limitations Of Viewing Communication As a Creative Artmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…El uso de la música, como metáfora útil para el campo de los estudios organizacionales, no es algo nuevo (Barrett, 1998;Meyer, Frost, & Weick, 1998;Oakes, 2009). Este recurso ha permitido aportar al entendimiento de múltiples procesos organizacionales, en especial, partiendo del concepto de improvisación (Hatch, 1999;Meyer et al, 1998;Weick, 1998).…”
Section: La Improvisación Musical Como Metáfora úTil Para Avanzar Hacunclassified
“…The music audience was analyzed for classical music (Kolb 2001;Thompson 1997), with a recently increased interest for jazz (Oakes 2009(Oakes , 2010Dennis and Macaulay 2003), but never before for innovative music forms.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%