Table of contents - Special Issue: Paradoxes in Management
Guest Editors: Alexis Downs, Dominique Besson, Pierre Louart, Rita Durant
The paradoxical repertoires of management consultancy
Andrea WhittleTo outline paradoxes found in literature on management consulting and present a novel way of re‐conceptualizing paradox using a performative or action‐oriented approach to…
Living with paradoxes of corporate strategy: A complexity perspective
Tore Hundsnes, Christine B. MeyerThe purpose of this paper is to challenge the understanding of paradox in corporate strategy as unintended and unwanted consequences that must be overcome.
Paradoxical process in the organizational change of the CEO succession: A case study from France
Slimane HaddadjThe purpose of this paper is to examine the paradoxes immanent in CEO succession.
Self‐regulation, strategic leadership and paradox in organizational change
Amy Taylor‐Bianco, John SchermerhornThe purpose of this paper is to present a dispositional model using self‐regulation as a foundation for the strategic leadership of organizational change.
A theory of organizing informed by activity theory: The locus of paradox, sources of change, and challenge to management
Frans PrenkertThe aim of this paper is to provide a solid theoretical base to the study of paradox in organized activity. It draws upon activity theory to show the managerial and analytical…
The social construction of organizational change paradoxes
Lotte S. Luscher, Marianne Lewis, Amy IngramThe purpose of this paper is to explain how paradox has become a common label for the organizational complexity, ambiguity and equivocality accentuated by change.
Reconciling institutional theory with organizational theories: How neoinstitutionalism resolves five paradoxes
María de la luz Fernández‐Alles, Ramón Valle‐CabreraThe aim of the paper is to review and compare traditional and new institutional postulates in order to address some of the criticism that this theory has received.
Anatta: Buddhist insights into the paradoxical nature of organizational cultural problems
Mark NealThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate paradoxes in the development of organizational cultural problems – paradoxes that go undetected by people involved in them. The paper…
The Tobin tax and Newcomb's paradox: Financial markets viewed from the perspective of Michel Serres
Dominique Besson, Alexis Downs, Rita Durant, Marco RomanThe purpose of this paper is to examine proposals for a Tobin tax to curb currency speculation in global markets.
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- Prof Slawomir Magala