...Wendelin Küpers Purpose This paper aims to critically examine traditional approaches to paradoxes and propose a new approach and perspective that views “chiasmic” organizing as a intertwining combination of structure and processes that facilitate the handling of multiple interrelations...

...Aldona Glińska-Neweś; Iwona Escher; Barbara Józefowicz; Alicja Łuka Purpose Together with increasing ambiguity and frequency of changes, management becomes full of seemingly conflicting choices, i.e. paradoxes, coming up in the process of decision-making. Successful management of paradoxes, i.e...

... and persistent limitations. The suggestion is that cultural research can be more productively conceived as a paradox involving a duality between two contrasting yet co-determined spheres or domains. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides an outline of culture as a paradox and an outline of a research...

...Aurelie Leclercq‐Vandelannoitte Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics that underlie contradictions and paradoxes in organizational change over time. Little research has explored the role of contradictions and paradoxes in the continuous cycle of organizing, which...