Elgar Introduction To Organizational Paradox Theory

Author : Berti, Marco
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839101148
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Introduction to Organizational Paradox Theory written by Berti, Marco and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Elgar Introduction comprises the first effort to provide a succinct overview of the field of organizational paradox theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in organizational settings. By conceptually mapping the field, it offers guidance through the literature on paradox, making space for new interpretations and applications of the concept.

Author : Cunha, Miguel P.e.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803922192
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Introduction to Designing Organizations written by Cunha, Miguel P.e. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Presenting the emergence of new organizational designs in a novel way, this insightful book blends theory and practice to examine major trends and directions, the key ideas that underpin organizational design and how these ideas might be applied.

Author : Abrantes, António C.M.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800370237
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Introduction to Organizational Improvisation Theory written by Abrantes, António C.M. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been researched and written about the emergence of improvisation processes within organizational contexts. Although still scarce, research on organizational improvisation has evolved from a jazz and theater metaphor to empirical and conceptual organizational frameworks, creating a consolidated organizational theoretical body. This Elgar Introduction discusses major theoretical advances in organizational improvisation, which the authors view as the process of improvisation that occurs within an organizational context, whether at the individual, team, or organizational level. Grounded in rigorous academic work to date, this book speaks both to scholars interested in developing research on organizational improvisation and to managers who face rapid change with crucial consequences.

Author : Keith Townsend
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786439018
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations written by Keith Townsend and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Elgar Introduction provides an overview of some of the key theories that inform human resource management and employment relations as a field of study.

Author : O’Brien, Kimberley E.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178990983X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Introduction to Organizational Stress Theories written by O’Brien, Kimberley E. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why does job stress manifest as negative emotions, disordered thoughts, deleterious behaviors, and physical illness? How can positive outcomes like growth and mastery be encouraged instead? Job stress theories provide insights that guide practical decision making on how to mitigate the negative effects and promote the positive outcomes for organizations and individuals. This book provides a review of empirical research on nearly 100 frameworks and hypotheses regarding job stress, as well as suggestions for the integration and refinement of both popular and overlooked theories.

Author : Luca Giustiniano
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178643704X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience written by Luca Giustiniano and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With organizational environments becoming more unstable, uncertain and equivocal, the concept of resilience has become increasingly significant for management studies. Resilience connotes organizational, team and individual capacities to absorb external shocks and to learn from them, while simultaneously preparing for and responding to external jolts. This book pinpoints the essential aspects of managerial and organizational resilience and offers insights that stimulate critical thinking. As the concept of resilience is essentially made up of contrasting forces, the volume presents some innovative synthetic interpretation that allows a deeper comprehension of the phenomenon and provides managers and policy-makers with a solid basis for taking their decisions.

Author : Medhanie Gaim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009313606
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational Paradox written by Medhanie Gaim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxes, contrary propositions that are not contestable separately but that are inconsistent when conjoined, constitute a pervasive feature of contemporary organizational life. When contradictory elements are constituted as equally important in day-to-day work, organizational actors frequently experience acute tensions in engaging with these contradictions. This Element discusses the presence of paradoxes in the life of organizations, introduces the reader to the notion of paradox in theory and practice, and distinguishes paradox and adjacent conceptualizations such as trade-off, dilemma, dialectics, ambiguity, etc. This Element also covers what triggers paradoxes and how they come into being whereby the Element distinguishes latent and salient paradoxes and how salient paradoxes are managed. This Element discusses key methodological challenges and possibilities of studying, teaching, and applying paradoxes and concludes by considering some future research questions left unexplored in the field.

Author : Richard J. Badham
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786437724
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ironies of Organizational Change written by Richard J. Badham and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book provides a novel and challenging framework for understanding and influencing organizational change. It reimagines managing and leading change as the mindful mobilisation of maps, masks and mirrors.

Author : Samantha Copeland
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031335295
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serendipity Science written by Samantha Copeland and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins of this emerging field within different disciplines as well as its increasing influence as its own field with foundational texts and emerging practices. The phenomenon of serendipity has been described in many ways since Horace Walpole initially coined the term in 1754 to categorize those discoveries that happen by “both accidents and sagacity”. This book offers a sampling of perspectives from experts in serendipity research from organizational studies, management theory, information science and library studies, psychology, literature, computer science, social science, ethics, and the history and philosophy of science. Considerations about the importance and role of serendipity are being raised now across science (both empirical and theoretical) as well as practice (from art and innovation to leadership and governance), with ever more eyes looking closer at its significance in human history and the likelihood it will play a key, while unpredictable, role in forming our future. Serendipity Science represents an emerging, and also important and potentially necessary field of study, if we are to deal well as a society with our complex times and uncertain future.

Author : Miguel Pina e Cunha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000933792
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations written by Miguel Pina e Cunha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments. Exploring theories of organizational action as well as contemporary challenges, it highlights improvisation’s rich potential in theory building and practice. The value and relevance of improvisational capabilities and processes in organizations are more apparent than ever: the global pandemic has forced organizations to reinvent themselves and to adapt to dramatic change on a massive scale. This surge in improvised activity starkly illustrates how the capability to improvise is key to organizational resilience: organizations that are able to improvise effectively are better prepared to bounce back and even thrive. From the latest thinking on improvisation in organizations to future avenues for research, this volume demonstrates the rich potential for both theory building and practice and provides a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in organizational strategy, entrepreneurship, product development, information systems, disaster management, and HRM.