Management and organization paradoxes / edited by Stewart R. Clegg.

Paradox -- the simultaneous existence of two inconsistent states -- has become orthodox. The orthodox is now the paradox. The orthodox world of ordering, controlling and organizing is increasingly opposed to a normalizing world of disordering, disrupting and disorganizing. And organization studies c...

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Corporate Author: Australian and Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (Organization)
Other Authors: Clegg, Stewart
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2002.
Series:Advances in organization studies ; 9.
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Table of Contents:
  • Management and Organization Paradoxes; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: General introduction; Part I: Representing Paradoxes; Chapter 2: Management, paradox, and permanent dialectics; Chapter 3: The meanings of risk and interorganizational collaboration; Chapter 4: Workers' playtime?; Chapter 5: Paradox in symbols and subjects; Chapter 6: Politics and popular culture; Chapter 7: From value conflicts to multiple mandates; Part II: Materialising Paradoxes; Chapter 8: Organizational paradoxes and business ethics.