TY - JOUR
T1 - A source of novelty and/or absurdity
T2 - The paradoxes of management
AU - Cunha, Miguel Pina e
AU - Bednarek, Rebecca
N1 - Funding text: this work was funded by national funds through FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under the project ref. UID/ECO/00124/2013 and by POR Lisboa ubder the project LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-007722.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper explores paradox, a way of seeing organizations that emphasizes interdependence, opposition and persistence, as both a source of novelty and absurdity. Paradoxes are processes with a dual potential for organizational harm or good, depending on the way they are framed and tackled. We explore this dual side of paradox and discuss some of its implications for the management of organizations.
AB - This paper explores paradox, a way of seeing organizations that emphasizes interdependence, opposition and persistence, as both a source of novelty and absurdity. Paradoxes are processes with a dual potential for organizational harm or good, depending on the way they are framed and tackled. We explore this dual side of paradox and discuss some of its implications for the management of organizations.
KW - paradoxes
KW - organisations
KW - novelty
KW - absurdity
UR - https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijbenv/v11y2020i1p69-79.html
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081348258&origin=inward&txGid=3daad9e8078e4266411a0665c48420a5
M3 - Article
VL - 11
SP - 69
EP - 79
JO - International Journal of Business Environment
JF - International Journal of Business Environment
SN - 1740-0589
IS - 1
ER -