Management, Organizations, and Paradoxes

Insights from the Central and Eastern European Region
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-88349-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

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 involves novelty and creativity in implemented tactics. Thus, to help managers navigate dualities and contradictions in their organizations, Management, Organizations, and Paradoxes presents a comprehensive overview of implementing the paradox theory from a distinct organizational standpoint in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) context. Beyond theoretical foundations, it integrates recent research findings and practical insights, providing rich knowledge for managing conflicting demands across diverse organizational dimensions. In addition, it unlocks new insights that can enrich academic discourse and guide practitioners in embracing a paradox mindset. It develops less-explored areas, such as paradox regarding sustainability in clusters, or digital and energy transition. It also explores paradox in human resource management, workplace learning, diversity, equity, and inclusion policy. It tests whether paradoxes have regional variation and provides insight from managerial practices in CEE. The authors prove that organizations embracing paradox can expand the scope of their opportunities and thrive.

This monograph can serve as a scholarly guide for managers, academics, and Ph.D students, encouraging them to analyze and manage organizations from a paradox angle.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zakrzewska-Bielawska, Agnieszka

Rozkwitalska-Welenc, Malgorzata

Lis, Anna Maria

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Malgorzata Rozkwitalska-Welenc is a Professor of Economics specializing in Organizational Science and Organizational Behavior. She works at WSB Merito University in Gdansk, Poland.

Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska is a Professor of Strategic Management and the Head of Management and Quality Studies at Lodz University of Technology, Poland.

Anna Maria Lis is a Professor of Innovation Management, Inter-Organizational Cooperation, and Sustainable Development at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.