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SHOPPING FOR NEW GLASSES: LOOKING BEYOND JAZZ IN THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL IMPROVISATION KEN KAMOCHE City University of Hong Kong Dept of Management Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon – Hong Kong E-mail: mgnkk@cityu.edu.hk MIGUEL PINA E CUNHA Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia Rua Marquês de Fronteira, 20 1099-038 Lisboa - Portugal E-mail: mpc@feunix.fe.unl.pt JOÃO VIEIRA DA CUNHA Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia Travessa Estêvão Pinto 1099-032 Lisboa - Portugal E-mail: jvc@fe.unl.pt 1 SHOPPING FOR NEW GLASSES: LOOKING BEYOND JAZZ IN THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL IMPROVISATION ABSTRACT This article calls for research on organizational improvisation to go beyond the currently dominant jazz metaphor in theory development. We recognize the important contribution that jazz improvisation has made and will no doubt continue to make in understanding the nature and complexity of organizational improvisation. This article therefore presents some key lessons from the jazz metaphor and then proceeds to identify the possible dangers of building scientific inquiry upon a single metaphor. We then present three alternative metaphors – Indian music, therapy and role theory. We explore the nature of these metaphors and seek to identify w