Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
List of Figures ................................................ ix
List of Tables ................................................. xi
List of Contributors ......................................... xiii
Series Editorial Structure .................................... xix
Endorsements .................................................. xxi
1 Introduction: How Does Novelty Emerge? ....................... 1
Raghu Garud, Barbara Simpson, Ann Langley, and Haridimos
Tsoukas
Part I. The Emergence of Novelty
2 Time of Emergence/Emergence of Time: Life in the Age of
Mechanical (re)Production ................................... 27
Suzanne Guerlac
3 On "Relational Things": A New Realm of Inquiry - Pre-
Understandings and Performative Understandings of People's
Meanings .................................................... 56
John Shotter
4 Imagination in Organizational Creativity: Insights from
the Radical Ontology of Cornelius Castoriadis ............... 80
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Marianna Fotaki
5 Negotiating Novelty: How Cultural Psychology Looks at
Organizational Dynamics .................................... 103
Jaan Valsiner
6 Between Technology and Music: Distributed Creativity and
Liminal Spaces in the Early History of Electronic Music
Synthesizers ............................................... 129
Trevor Pinch
7 Taking Advantage of Emergence .............................. 157
Deborah Dougherty
8 How Organizational Innovation Emerges Through
Improvisational Processes .................................. 180
R. Keith Sawyer
9 Creativity at Work: Generating Useful Novelty in Haute
Cuisine Restaurants ........................................ 216
Isabelle Bouty and Marie-Léandre Gomez
Part II. Process Studies
10 The Paradox of Stability and Change: Elias' Processual
Sociology .................................................. 245
Chris Mowles
11 After Mastery: Insights from Practice Theorizing ........... 272
Dvora Yanow
12 Conceptions of Process in Organization and Management:
The Case of Identity Studies ............................... 318
Jörgen Sandberg, Bernadette Loacker, and Mats Alvesson
Index of Names ................................................ 345
Index of Subjects ............................................. 353
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