Exploring the Empty Spaces of Organizing: How Improvisational Jazz Helps Redescribe Organizational Structure
以爵士乐为隐喻，重新描述组织结构的概念，将其视为模糊、情感化和时间性的，适合组织研究学者阅读。
This paper uses jazz as a metaphoric vehicle for redescribing (Rorty 1989) the concept of organizational structure in ways that fit within the emerging vocabulary of organization studies. It begins with a description of some basic elements of jazz performance soloing, comping, trading fours, listening and responding, groove and feel and builds on these to redescribe organizational structure as ambiguous, emotional and temporal. In reflexive fashion, the paper not only demonstrates the concepts it engages, but presents a jazz-like performance of Rorty's method of redescription via metaphor.