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ISBN:
9781839101144
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This insightful Elgar Introduction comprises the first effort to provide a succinct overview of the field of organizational paradox theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in organizational settings. By conceptually mapping the field, it offers guidance through the literature on paradox, making space for new interpretations and applications of the concept.
Content:
Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. What is paradox? Tensions, contradictions and oppositions in organization studies -- 2. How to deal with paradoxes: the role of responses in the construction of paradoxical tension -- 3. The bright side: paradoxes and positive organizational scholarship -- 4. The dark side: absurdity and pragmatic paradoxes -- 5. Nested, multiple and multidimensional paradoxes -- 6. Paradoxes of power, control and empowerment -- 7. The sociological futures of paradox: incorporating grand challenges -- References -- Index.
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ISBN 9781839101137
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Berti, Marco, - 1965- Elgar introduction to organizational paradox theory Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021 ISBN 9781839101137
Language:
English
Keywords:
Organisationstheorie
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Author information:
Clegg, Stewart 1947-
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