“…Improvisation is a widely applied concept, manifesting itself in settings as diverse as crisis management and jazz musical expression (Cunha et al, 2022; Hadida et al, 2015; Hutchins, 1991; Vera & Crossan, 2005). There was a lot of improvisation during the Covid‐19 outbreak when individuals, firms, organizations, and societies had to improvise to cope with pandemic‐induced disruptions (Cunha et al, 2022; Munir et al, 2022). The wide application of improvisation has led scholars to use multiple definitions, tapping into intuition, action orientation, knowledge, novelty, spontaneity, and flexibility to conceptualize the concept (Hadida et al, 2015; Vera & Crossan, 2004).…”