ISBN:
9780191069376
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (625 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Handbooks Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Organizational sociology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Organizations 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 organizational phenomena and levels of analysis.
Abstract:
Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox -- Copyright -- Foreword: Paradoxin Organizational Theory -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The Paradoxes of Paradox -- Part I Foundations and Approaches -- 1. Ad Fontes: Philosophical Foundations of Paradox Research -- 2. Psychoanalytic Theory, Emotion, and Organizational Paradox -- 3. A Road Map of the Paradoxical Mind: Expanding Cognitive Theories on Organizational Paradox -- 4. What Paradox?: Developing a Process Syntax for Organizational Research -- 5. Organizational Dialectics -- 6. Circumventing the Logic and Limits of Representation: Otherness in East-West Approaches to Paradox -- Part II Paradoxical Phenomena in and beyond Organizations -- 7. Critical Management Studies and Paradox -- 8. Beyond Managerial Dilemmas: The Study of Institutional Paradoxes in Organization Theory -- 9. Paradoxes of Organizational Identity -- 10. Alternate Prisms for Pluralism and Paradox in Organizations -- 11. Paradox in Positive Organizational Scholarship -- 12. Managing Normative Tensions within and across Organizations: What Can the Economies of Worth and Paradox Frameworks Learn from Each Other? -- 13. The Role of Irony and Metaphor in Working through Paradox during Organizational Change -- 14. Reflections on the Paradoxes of Modernity: A Conversation with James March -- 15. Paradox at an Inter-Firm Level: A Coopetition Lens -- 16. Pathways to Ambidexterity: A Process Perspective on the Exploration-Exploitation Paradox -- 17. Gender and Organizational Paradox -- 18. Navigating the Paradoxes of Sustainability -- 19. The Paradoxes of Time in Organizations -- 20. On Organizational Circularity: Vicious and Virtuous Cycles in Organizing -- 21. Tensions in Managing Human Resources: Introducing a Paradox Framework and Research Agenda.
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