摘要：Nowadays, it is possible to verify an increase of academic articles about the phenomenon of time on Organizations Studies field which has close relation to change management in organization. Recently, investigations about time are associated to organizational improvisation and some of these researches offer organizational formats and models. This article aims to verify how cyclical and linear perspectives of time are present in organizational improvisation. Therefore, this article was structured in the following segments: the first is an introduction, the second deals with some conceptual aspects of cyclical and linear perspectives of time; the third describes organizational improvisational conceptual frames; the fourth presents a description of the relations between cyclical and linear perspectives of time and organizational improvisational conceptual frames; and the fith presents the final considerations.
关键词：Organizational improvisation. Perspective of cyclical time. Perspective of linear time. Synchronization.;Improvisação organizacional. Perspectiva do tempo cíclico. Perspectiva do tempo linear. Sincronização.
