Paradox Management: Contradictions and Tensions in Complex Organizations - Hardcover

Heiberg Johansen, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319948148 ISBN 13: 9783319948140

Verlag: Palgrave Pivot, 2018

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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.

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Jan Heiberg Johansen, MBA, MA, is the Director of Consulting at the City of Copenhagen’s internal consultancy.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3319948148
• ISBN 13: 9783319948140
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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