Waseda Organizational and Financial Economics Seminar:
“How ‘freelance improvisation’ can trigger a disaster” (7/9)
講演者 / Speaker
GIUSTINIANO, Luca （Professor, LUISS Guido Carli University）
日 時 / Date & Time
2018年7月9日（月） 13:00～14:30
会 場 / Venue
早稲田大学 早稲田キャンパス 11号館 11階 1112教室
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 開会の挨拶（宮島 英昭 早稲田大学 高等研究所長 ／ 商学学術院 教授）
13:05～14:05 講演
14:05～14:25 質疑応答
14:25～14:30 閉会の挨拶（宮島 英昭）
対 象 / Prospected Audience
学部生・大学院生・教職員・一般
主 催 / Organizer
早稲田大学 産業経営研究所
早稲田大学 高等研究所
申込み / Registration
事前申込み不要です。直接会場にお越しください。
