Management, organizations, and paradoxes : insights from the Central and Eastern European Region

Paradoxical tensions are persistently inevitable in today's complex organizational world. Therefore, managers should perceive them as a lens through which they see organizations and work through them. Reconciling paradoxes requires understanding their nature and appraising them. It also involve...

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Other Authors Rozkwitalska, Małgorzata (Editor), Zakrzewska-Bielawska, Agnieszka, 1973- (Editor), Lis, Anna Maria, 1976- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford : Routledge, [2025]
SeriesManagement, organizations and society (London, England)
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781003541394
1003541399
9781040381830
1040381839
9781040381793
1040381790
9781032883496
Physical Description1 online resource : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • Editors' Introduction PART I. INTRODUCTION TO PARADOX THEORY AND PRACTICE Chapter 1. Exploring the Complex Area of Organizational Paradoxes: Overcoming Methodological Obstacles Chapter 2. Organizational Paradox Theory: Managing Competing Demand Then and Now Chapter 3. Ambidexterity: A Strategic Approach to Overcoming Exploration and Exploitation Paradox PART II. PARADOXES IN MANAGING PEOPLE Chapter 4. Human Resource Paradoxes in a Belgian Subsidiary of a Multinational Enterprise. An Ethnographic Case Study Chapter 5. Homo Managerius: The Paradox of Leadership Chapter 6. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policy Paradoxes. Insights from the Central and Eastern European Hospitality Sector PART III. MANAGING LEARNING PARADOXES Chapter 7. Paradoxes in Innovation: Navigating the Duality of Closed versus Open Innovation and Business versus Non-Profit Innovations Chapter 8. Workplace Learning Through Organizational and Leadership Paradoxes: Insights from Multinational Enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe PART IV. SUSTAINABILITY PARADOXES Chapter 9. Conflicting Demands of Sustainable Digital Transformation Chapter 10. Energy Clusters in Reconciling Paradoxes in Corporate Sustainability Chapter 11. Energy Transition Through the Energy-based Industrial Clusters: Paradoxes and Their Solutions