Waseda Organizational and Financial Economics Seminar:
“How ‘freelance improvisation’ can trigger a disaster” (July 9)
講演者 / Speaker
GIUSTINIANO, Luca （Professor, LUISS Guido Carli University）
日 時 / Date & Time
Monday, 9 July 2018, 13:00 – 14:30
会 場 / Venue
Rm. #1112 on the 11th floor, Building #11, Waseda University
主 旨 / Outline
“How ‘freelance improvisation’ can trigger a disaster”
Resilience is a capacity developed and deployed over time rather than an effective reaction to a single. Such a capacity can be expressed at different levels of aggregation, spanning from individuals to entire communities.
The brilliant examination of the Mann Gulch disaster conducted by Karl Weick (1993) shows that even organizations – and systems – which are designed to face risky situations can result vulnerable when exposed to the unexpected, while experiencing “erosion of sense and structure” (p. 638). As Weick (1993) anticipates, organizational improvisation provides the means for exploration of alternatives to face the unpredictable. As in many artistic and emergent practices, flexible, extemporaneous, improvised action stimulates learning from the unexpected, that complement what routines cannot prescribe. Hence organizational improvisation contributes to resilience as it turns resource constraints into opportunities, stimulating resourcefulness and imagination, leveraging upon organizational ingenuity and imaginative recombination of resources. In line with previous work, we define surprises as events that happen unexpectedly or expected events that take unexpected. So, some question arises: How does the predictable become surprising for organizations designed to be resilient? How does such a design for resilience turn into vulnerability? We answer these questions through the analysis of the tragedy of EN236-1, the “road of death” (Central Portugal), in which 64 people lost their lives in June 2017.
プログラム / Schedule
13:00～13:05 Opening Remarks （MIYAJIMA, Hideaki (Director, WIAS / Professor, Waseda University)）
13:05～14:05 Presentation
14:05～14:25 Question-and-answer session
14:25～14:30 Concluding Remarks（MIYAJIMA, Hideaki ）
対 象 / Prospected Audience
Faculty and staff members of a university, grad students, undergraduates, the general public
主 催 / Organizer
Research Institute of Business Administration,Waseda University
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study,Waseda University
申込み / Registration
Free of charge. Please come to the event venue directly.
