Includes bibliographical references and index.

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-Vallâee, 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, Andrâe 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.

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.

Specialized.

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