A5042219652- Management and Organizational Studies
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Management Theory and Practice
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Design Education and Practice
- Business Strategy and Innovation
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Global and Cross-Cultural Management
- Business Strategies and Innovation
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Globalization and Cultural Identity
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Construction Project Management and Performance
- University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
Umeå University
2015-2024
Statistics Sweden
2022
We examine paradoxes in organizations and the organizations’ ability to deal with resulting paradoxical tensions. Paradoxes constitute contradictory yet interrelated organizational demands that exist simultaneously, tensions persisting over time. Irrespective of prevailing evidence engaging leads peak performance short-term, which reinforces long-term success, question how this might be done remains perplexing. Thus, based on pragmatic philosophy, paper aims increase our understanding what...
Pradies, Camille; Aust, Ina; Bednarek, Rebecca; Brandl; Julia; Carmine Simone; Cheal, Joe; Pina e Cunha, Miguel; Gaim, Medhanie; Keegan, Anne; Le, Jane K.; Miron-Spektor; Ella, Nielsen; Rikke Kristine; Pouthier, Vanessa; Sharma, Garima; Sparr, Jennifer; Vince, Russ; Keller, Joshua: The lived experience of paradox : how individuals navigate tensions during the pandemic crisis, Journal Management Inquiry (30(2)) pp. 154 - 167. Copyright © 2021 Sage. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492620986874
The challenge of dealing with paradoxes has become a central issue in management and organization studies. Present research literature is largely inclined to idealize paradoxical framing thinking theorizing. We critically explore the perils present when generated by stretch goals whose ‘achievement’ accomplished through impression management. Using Volkswagen emissions scandal we show how promises, embraced discursively but not substantively, created false transcendence rather than mastery....
Support systems for early venturing efforts need to be harmonious with the emergent nature of those efforts.With current literature treating conceptions new ventures as exogenous, there has been limited focus on transition from nebulous, open-ended, and accidental toward becoming scalable, focused, deliberate.We develop a dynamic model organizing support phases new-venture creation, where scattered ideas evolve into venture concepts tokens, frames, premises further action.By viewing...
Organizational paradoxes persist. In their persistence, they resist closure; we demonstrate how, by using an exemplary project, that of the construction Sydney Opera House. By analyzing encountered in a notable contemporary architectural discuss how dialogical interactions enable options to emerge form responses were not previously evident. Engaging dialogically requires accepting rather than denying contradictions, meaning resolving them favor one pole or other, contradictions remain play....
Organizational scholars have shown increasing interest in the ways which managers enact and respond to competing demands tensions they prompt as constitutive elements of their organizations. There is now a proliferation conceptualizations such that can be somewhat confusing. We will enhance conceptual clarity by identifying seven empirical characteristics demands: these consist existence dyadic relations, contradiction, interrelatedness, complementarity, compatibility, simultaneity,...
It is well established that engaging paradoxes and the role of space are important aspects idea work. Although significance has been recognized, studies focus on intersection between paradox scarce. Accordingly, this article explores focuses in work characterized by paradoxes. More specifically, aim twofold. First, aims at identifying spatial conditions enable organization members to think act paradoxically. Second, exploring how evoke a paradoxical way thinking doing. Based three...
In management and organization studies, the challenge of dealing with paradoxes has become a central issue. The literature, however, is largely populated by research inclined to idealize paradoxical framing in thinking theorizing. this paper, we explore perils present when generated stretch goals ‘achievement’ which accomplished through organizational charade. Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal case that shows how promises are embraced discursively but not substantively create...
This study presents how online platforms and digital technologies can be game-changing to address socio-economic problems in the world via teaching entrepreneurship. We used these methodologies along with data matching algorithms expand application of concept Liability Foreignness (LOF) individuals forced migrate. Our nine-week-long entrepreneurship course rendered over a MOOC platform edX sheds light on LOF affects new business formation activity during immigration. The Ethiopian refugee...
Increased attention to paradoxical tensions has informed our understanding of organizations, challenging us frame as an inevitable part organizational functioning which, when worked through effectively, can enable creativity and more sustainable institutions (Bednarek, Paroutis, & Sillince, 2017; Clegg, Cunha, 2002; Schad, Lewis, Raisch, Smith, 2016). Yet even paradox theory emerged recently within theory, the roots these ideas date back thousands years (Smith, Jarzabkowski, Langley, 2017)....