Pandemic, power and paradox: Improvising as the New Normal during the COVID-19 crisis

Simpson, AV; Panayiotou, A; Berti, M; e Cunha, MP; Kanji, S; Clegg, S

Pandemic, power and paradox: Improvising as the New Normal during the COVID-19 crisis

Simpson, AV Panayiotou, A Berti, M

e Cunha, MP Kanji, S Clegg, S

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Publisher:: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Management Learning, 2023, 54, (1), pp. 3-13
Issue Date:: 2023-02-01

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dc.contributor.author	Simpson, AV
dc.contributor.author	Panayiotou, A
dc.contributor.author	Berti, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0519-8824
dc.contributor.author	e Cunha, MP
dc.contributor.author	Kanji, S
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-07T21:59:35Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-07T21:59:35Z
dc.date.issued	2023-02-01
dc.identifier.citation	Management Learning, 2023, 54, (1), pp. 3-13
dc.identifier.issn	1350-5076
dc.identifier.issn	1461-7307
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/176309
dc.description.abstract	The global COVID-19 pandemic made salient various paradoxical tensions, such as the trade-offs between individual freedom and collective safety, between short term and long-term consequences of adaptation to the new conditions, the power implications of sameness (COVID-19 was non-discriminatory in that all were affected in one way or another) and difference (yet not all were affected equally due to social differences), whereas most businesses became poorer under lockdown, others flourished; while significant numbers of workers were confined to home, some could not return home; some thrived while working from home as others were challenged by the erosion of barriers between their private and working lives. Rapid improvisational responding and learning at all levels of society presented itself as a naturally occurring research opportunity for improvisation scholars. This improvisation saw the arrival of a ‘New Normal’, eventually defined as ‘learning to live with COVID-19’. The five articles in this special issue capture critical aspects of improvisation, paradoxes and power made salient by the COVID-19 pandemic in contexts ranging from higher-education, to leadership, to medical care and virtue ethics. In their own ways, each breaks new ground by contributing novel insights into improvisation scholarship.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
dc.relation	Fundação para a Ciência e TecnologiaUID/ECO/00124/2019
dc.relation.ispartof	Management Learning
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/13505076221132980
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1503 Business and Management
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management
dc.subject.classification	3505 Human resources and industrial relations
dc.subject.classification	3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
dc.title	Pandemic, power and paradox: Improvising as the New Normal during the COVID-19 crisis
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	54
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pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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dc.date.updated	2024-03-07T21:59:34Z
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The global COVID-19 pandemic made salient various paradoxical tensions, such as the trade-offs between individual freedom and collective safety, between short term and long-term consequences of adaptation to the new conditions, the power implications of sameness (COVID-19 was non-discriminatory in that all were affected in one way or another) and difference (yet not all were affected equally due to social differences), whereas most businesses became poorer under lockdown, others flourished; while significant numbers of workers were confined to home, some could not return home; some thrived while working from home as others were challenged by the erosion of barriers between their private and working lives. Rapid improvisational responding and learning at all levels of society presented itself as a naturally occurring research opportunity for improvisation scholars. This improvisation saw the arrival of a ‘New Normal’, eventually defined as ‘learning to live with COVID-19’. The five articles in this special issue capture critical aspects of improvisation, paradoxes and power made salient by the COVID-19 pandemic in contexts ranging from higher-education, to leadership, to medical care and virtue ethics. In their own ways, each breaks new ground by contributing novel insights into improvisation scholarship.

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