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Book Chapter
Serial: Contemporary Perspectives on Leadership Learning
Published: 10 November 2025
10.1108/978-1-83708-948-220251029
EISBN: 978-1-83708-948-2
ISBN: 978-1-83708-949-9
... within organizational structures: administrative, adaptive, and enabling. Complexity in our lives and the systems we work in creates tensions. Leaders can leverage these tensions to enable adaptability through collaboration, learning, innovation, and growth. Navigating complexity is a process of meaning...
Book Chapter
Series: Advances in Research on Teaching
Published: 10 August 2023
10.1108/S1479-368720230000043013
EISBN: 978-1-80455-466-1
ISBN: 978-1-80455-467-8
... in the decade since our book Emotion in school: Understanding how the hidden curriculum influences relationships, leadership, teaching and learning was published. We approach the topic through a lens of tensions that we perceive occurring in the field. Emotions in schools, for the most part, remain...
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Series: Studies in Educational Ethnography
Published: 23 June 2022
10.1108/S1529-210X20220000019001
EISBN: 978-1-80071-008-5
ISBN: 978-1-83982-247-6
... and ethical guideline scrutiny. Everyday ethics representation tensions voice process ethical dilemmas Introduction All ethnographers, whether regarded as novice or expert engaging with education-based research must grapple with questions of ethics. The question of what it means to behave ethically...
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Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 08 July 2021
10.1108/S0733-558X2021000073b002
EISBN: 978-1-80117-186-1
ISBN: 978-1-80117-187-8
.... Epistemology interdisciplinary research methodology ontology paradox theory tensions Interdisciplinary research allows us to integrate ideas from different disciplines to gain greater knowledge and uncover new ways of seeing. By reaching for theories beyond our own discipline, we learn new ideas...
Book Chapter
Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 08 July 2021
10.1108/S0733-558X2021000073a002
EISBN: 978-1-80117-183-0
ISBN: 978-1-80117-184-7
... on why paradox theory is ripe for interdisciplinary theorizing, explore the benefits of doing so, and introduce the papers in this double volume. Grand challenges interdisciplinary research organization theory paradox theory tensions theorizing Introduction Organizations surface ongoing competing...
Book Chapter
Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 08 July 2021
10.1108/S0733-558X2021000073a012
EISBN: 978-1-80117-183-0
ISBN: 978-1-80117-184-7
... of the planetary emergency to ensure effective action. Planetary emergency paradox corporate sustainability planetary boundaries tensions global shocks Introduction On September 24, 2019, The Club of Rome, 1 in partnership with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact, 2...
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Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 07 December 2020
10.1108/S0733-558X20200000069003
EISBN: 978-1-83909-354-8
ISBN: 978-1-83909-355-5
...Abstract As hybrid organizations become increasingly common, the authors observe that some hybrid forms are becoming institutionalized and legitimated. The authors explore the implications of the institutionalization of hybridity, addressing both the internal tensions that plague many hybrids...
Book Chapter
Published: 18 November 2020
10.1108/978-1-78769-355-520201006
EISBN: 978-1-78769-355-5
ISBN: 978-1-78769-356-2
... approaches, and resulting in significantly different activities and outcomes. Accordingly there are many possible nexuses that bring security and development together ( Fig. 3.1 ). Fig. 3.1. Conceptualising the Security–development Nexus. Source:  Jesperson (2016, p. 34) . Causal Tension...
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Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 17 September 2020
10.1108/S0733-558X20200000067011
EISBN: 978-1-83909-348-7
ISBN: 978-1-83909-349-4
... shows that this process involves a plurality of partly conflicting temporal structures. As their study shows, such conflicts invoke tensions that actors live out in their daily activities. The authors identify three temporal practices – sequencing, freezing, and merging – through which actors engaged...
Book Chapter
Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 17 September 2020
10.1108/S0733-558X20200000067015
EISBN: 978-1-83909-348-7
ISBN: 978-1-83909-349-4
...Abstract Portfolios of temporary organisations, particularly portfolios of R&D projects with different project partners, are a common yet understudied phenomenon. We know that these portfolios suffer from tensions inherent in project portfolio ambidexterity (e.g. portfolios balancing R&D...
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Series: Business and Society 360
Published: 15 June 2020
10.1108/S2514-175920200000004006
EISBN: 978-1-83867-373-4
ISBN: 978-1-83867-374-1
... tensions around CS decisions and propose several reasons why decision-makers predominantly resort to the instrumental perspective (CS as a mean) rather than the intrinsic perspective (CS as an end) when addressing these tensions. In this chapter, the authors offer a novel solution to overcome this issue...
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Serial: Emerald Studies in Teacher Preparation in National and Global Contexts
Published: 19 June 2019
10.1108/978-1-78754-639-42019006
EISBN: 978-1-78754-639-4
ISBN: 978-1-78754-640-0
... (primary), and post–primary (secondary) teachers are considered. teachers’ colleges history policy purpose regulations tensions change Nonetheless, the Atmore Report made no recommendations that would resolve the situation and rectify lingering tensions. 35 This not only left...
Book Chapter
Published: 29 May 2018
10.1108/978-1-78754-968-520181016
EISBN: 978-1-78754-968-5
ISBN: 978-1-78754-969-2
.... It is also based on two major empirical studies. The first is a historical study that focuses on the consequences for different parts of marketing organizations when two organizations merge. The study shows how, for example, over time various tensions, conflicts, and contradictions become important drivers...
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Series: Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance
Published: 10 November 2015
10.1108/S2051-663020150000004001
EISBN: 978-1-78560-428-7
ISBN: 978-1-78560-429-4
... with board members, management and other stakeholders, and complemented by document studies and observations. Findings Governance practice entails multiple and multilevel tasks, and the tensions between representativeness/professional boards, conformance/performance, and controlling/partnering up...
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Series: Advances in Research on Teaching
Published: 04 July 2013
10.1108/S1479-3687(2013)0000019022
EISBN: 978-1-78190-851-8
ISBN: 978-1-78190-850-1
...; Flores & Day, 2006). The research has included the tensions and accompanying feelings and coping strategies in beginning teachers’ professional identity development ( Pillen et al., 2012 ), the role of emotions in student teachers’ professional identity formation ( Timostsuk & Ugaste, 2010...

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