Abstract:
Paradox is gaining more and more pervasiveness in and around
organizations, thus increasing the need for an approach to management
that allows both researchers and practitioners to address these
paradoxes. We attempt to contribute to this project by suggesting a
relational approach to paradoxes. To this aim, we first present the
state of the art of research on management paradoxes and then
explain four regularities surfaced in the literature on this topic. We
conclude by arguing that taking these regularities as a whole allows
us to suggest a new perspective on paradoxes - one with a positive
regard for the co-presence of opposites but that takes seriously the
potential relationship between these.
