The Oxford handbook of organizational paradox / edited by Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis, Paula Jarzabkowski, and Ann Langley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Wendy K., editor.

Lewis, Marianne W., editor.

Jarzabkowski, Paula, editor.

Langley, Ann (Professor), editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in business and management.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Organisations are rife with paradoxes, evident in persistent and interwoven tensions for example between stability and change, flexibility and control, diversity and inclusion, long term and short term, social and financial, learning and performing. This handbook investigates paradoxes across various organisational phenomena and levels of analysis.

Contents:

Ad Fontes - Philosophical foundations of paradox research / Jonathan Schad

Paradoxes of Organizational Identity / Marya L. Besharov, Garima Sharma

Alternate prisms for pluralism and paradox in organizations / Mariline Comeau-Vallée, Jean-Louis Denis, Julie Maude Normandin, Marie-Christine Therrien

Paradox in Positive Organizational Scholarship / Kim S. Cameron

Managing normative tensions within and across organizations: What can the Economies of Worth and paradox frameworks learn from each other? / Jean-Pascal Gond, Christiane Demers, Valerie Michaud

The role of irony and metaphor in working through paradox during organizational change / John Sillince, Ben Golant

Reflections on the paradoxes of modernity: A conversation with James March / Richard John Badham

Paradox at an inter-firm level: A coopetition lens / Maria Bengtsson, Tatbeeq Raza-Ullah

Pathways to ambidexterity: A process perspective on the exploration-exploitation paradox / Sebastian Raisch, Alexander Zimmermann

Navigating the paradoxes of sustainability / Jason Jay, Sara Soderstrom, Gabriel Grant

The paradoxes of time in organizations / Natalie Slawinski, Tima Bansal

Psychoanalytic theory, emotion and organizational paradox / Michael Jarrett, Russ Vince

On organizational circularity: Vicious and virtuous circles in organizing / Hari Tsoukas, Miguel Pinha de Cuhna

Tensions in managing human resources: Introducing a paradox framework and resarch agenda / Julia Brandl, Anne Keegan, Marcia Lensges

Looking at creativity through a paradox lens: Deeper understanding and new insights / Ella Miron-Spektor, Miriam Erez

"I am...I said": Paradoxical tensions of individual identity / Mathew Sheep, Glen E. Kreiner, Gail Fairhurst

Paradox in Everyday Practice: Applying Practice-Theoretical Principles to Paradox / Jane Le, Rebecca Bednarek

Methods of paradox / Costas Andriopoulos, Manto Gotsi

Paradox and Polarities: Finding Common Ground and Moving Forward Together: A Case Study of Polarity Thinking and Action in Charleston, South Carolina / Margaret Seidler, Cliff Kayser, Barry Johnson

The paradoxical mystery of the missing differences between academics and practitioners / Eliana Crosina, Jean M. Bartunek

Gender and organizational paradox / Linda L. Putnam, Karen Lee Ashcraft

What paradox?: Developing a process syntax for organizational research / Robin Holt, Mike Zundel

Introduction / Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis, Paula Jarzabkowski, Ann Langley

Expanding Paradox-Pedagogy Links: Paradox as a Threshold Concept in Management Education / Eric Knight, Sotirios Paroutis

Cultural: Eastern vs. Circumventing the Logic and Limits of Representation: Otherness in East-West Approaches to ParadoxApproaches / Robert Chia, Ajit Nayak

Organizational Dialectics / Stewart Clegg, Miguel Pina de Cuhna

Critical management studies and paradox / Koen van Bommel, André Spicer

A roadmap of the paradoxical mind: Expanding cognitive theories on organizational paradox / Josh Keller, Chen Wen Chen

Beyond managerial dilemmas: The study of institutional paradoxes in organization theory / Paul Tracey, Doug Creed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780191815966

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