Power, politics and improvisation: Learning during a prolonged crisis
通过对一所澳大利亚大学在新冠疫情期间使用微信的纵向案例研究，分析了权力和政治如何影响从即兴发挥中学习的过程，揭示了不同即兴形式在权力和学习双重作用下相互转化的机制。
The COVID-19 pandemic has caught most organizations off guard. They have had to adapt their operations rapidly, and with the pandemic persisting, continuously improvise. While such an external jolt to organizations might unsettle operations, it does not remove the fact that organizations are sites of power relations and political activity. In this article, we examine the influence of power and politics on learning from improvisation, through a qualitative longitudinal case study of an Australian university during COVID-19. We trace improvisations with the use of the social media platform WeChat, which was eventually adopted, after several changes in forms of improvisation, as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study contributes to the literature on learning from improvisation, and explains how different forms of improvisation morph into one another under the simultaneous influence of power relations and learning.