Paradox Management: Contradictions and Tensions in Complex Organizations

✍ Scribed by Jan Heiberg Johansen

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 199
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Paradoxes emerge everywhere in organizational theory and management practice. This book is a theoretically grounded presentation of the strategic and historical context of organizational paradoxes, exploring the paradoxes in organizational management and the available tactics to manage them. Based on 700 academic sources in the paradox literature, it presents paradox management as a nuanced and coherent perspective. In presenting and integrating the vast literature on the subject, it contributes new knowledge on how and why the paradox concept was introduced into management theory, how and why conflicting ideals of management can produce organizational contradictions, and how paradoxes can be managed.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Quest for Value (Jan Heiberg Johansen)....Pages 1-18
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
The Strategic Context: The Mother of Paradox (Jan Heiberg Johansen)....Pages 21-42
The Historical Context: Contradictory Ideals of Management (Jan Heiberg Johansen)....Pages 43-63
Front Matter ....Pages 65-65
The Foundation: A New Perspective on Management in Complexity (Jan Heiberg Johansen)....Pages 67-91
The Paradox Types: Tensions in Organizing, Performance, Belonging, and Learning (Jan Heiberg Johansen)....Pages 93-127
Front Matter ....Pages 129-129
Paradox Tactics: Avoid, Activate, Transcend (Jan Heiberg Johansen)....Pages 131-172
Value Creation: Paradoxes as a Holistic Perspective on Management (Jan Heiberg Johansen)....Pages 173-183
Back Matter ....Pages 185-193

✦ Subjects

Business and Management; Organization; Management

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