Sub-theme 46: Embracing Paradoxes and Tensions: Implications for Research, Practice and Teaching
Convenors:
Wendy K. Smith, University of Delaware, USA
Luc K. Audebrand, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Valérie Michaud, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Mont-Tremblant
Paradox: Projecting the Past
Chair: Wendy K. Smith, Luc K. Audebrand and Valérie Michaud
Group Discussion:
What have learned about organizational paradoxes? What questions do we have going forward? What do we hope to learn in these next few days together?
What have learned about organizational paradoxes? What questions do we have going forward? What do we hope to learn in these next few days together?
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Mont-Tremblant
Paradoxes of Leadership
Chair: Ella Miron-Spektor
Cynthia Clark, Erica L. Steckler and Sue M. Newell
Managing contradiction in business and society: Stockholder and stakeholder views of the firm as paradoxical opportunity
Thierry Amslem
Variation of a social and a commercial Logic and their role in practice change
Risto Säntti and Riitta Viitala
Fuzzy ideas on human resource management in the mind of a CEO
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 16:00 to 17:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Mont-Tremblant
Embracing Paradox: Trust, Vulnerability and Irony
Chair: Camille Pradies
Isabelle Yi Ren, Ronald L. Dufresne and Judy Clair
Embracing leadership vulnerability
Ina Aust-Gronarz
Trust across cultures from a paradox perspective
Richard J. Badham and Linda Matula
The deep play of communicating paradox
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Mont-Tremblant
Paradoxes of Hybrid Organizations
Chair: Ina Ehnert
Wendy K. Smith and Marya L. Besharov
Sustaining paradoxical tensions over time: A longitudinal study of a global social enterprise
Beatrice Manzoni and Leentje Volker
Working through paradoxes in professional creative service firms: Lessons learned from design competitions
Session V: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Mont-Tremblant
Paradoxes of Creativity
Chair: Annie Camus
Ella Miron-Spektor and Gerard Beenen
A paradoxical perspective on creativity: The effects of independent and combined learning and performance goal orientations
on idea novelty and usefulness
Matthew Grimes
To thine own self be true? Pivoting as paradox resolution during idea-stage entrepreneurship
Shalini Khazanchi, Mathew L. Sheep and Marianne W. Lewis
Creativity as paradox: Novelty-usefulness tensions in idea evaluation
Session VI: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Paradoxes of Innovation and Change - Room: Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Mont-Tremblant
Chair: Richard Badham
Suresh Cuganesan
Managing multi-level paradoxes in the process of developing contextual ambidexterity
Michael Jarrett and Russ Vince
Emotional absorption: The paradox of defense mechanisms as disengagement and engagement in change
Zdenek Necas
Sustaining organizational paradoxes: Role of managerial cognition in MNEs’ management of tensions when adapting to the rise
of EMNEs
Parallel Stream B: Paradoxes at the Organization Level - Room: Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Natashquan
Chair: Robert P. Wright
Benjamin Klein, Björn Schäfer and Max J. Ringlstetter
Coopetitive dynamics - A dialectical perspective on the evolution of alliances among competitors
Medhanie Gaim and Nils Wåhlin
In search of a creative space: A conceptual framework of synthesizing paradoxes via design thinking
Robert P. Wright
Using oppositional analysis grounded in personal construct theory to study the paradox of organizational complacency
Parallel Stream C: Paradoxes of Identity and Emotions - Room: Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Shawinigan
Chair: Mariline Comeau-Vallée
Luc Brès, Djahanchah P. (Sacha) Ghadiri and Jean-Pascal Gond
Identity work for managing the profit-social responsibility tensions: The case of corporate social responsibility consultants
Mariline Comeau-Vallée
Inter-professional collaboration: A paradoxical identity game
Alice Juel Jacobsen
Professions and paradoxes in New Public Management reform
Parallel Stream D: Paradoxes of Social Responsibility and Sustainability - Room: Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Granby
Chair: Wesley S. Helms
Hélène Bovais
Integrated pluralism as a cornerstone of paradox management in a hybrid organization. The retail bank of Crédit Agricole
Wesley S. Helms, Patrick Wood and Amy E. Ingram
Environmental antecedents and outcomes to paradoxes: Organizational motivations, paradoxical issues, and the political construction
of ISO 26000
Chantal Hervieux, Jean-Mathieu Fallu and Marie-France Turcotte
The hybrid organization and the paradox of sustainability
Parallel Stream E: Paradox Teaching and Education - Room: Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Rivière-du-Loup
Chair: Luc K. Audebrand
Jacqueline Holzer and Peter Kels
Innovation leadership and freedom. Patterns of dialog in leader-follower-exchange, tensions experienced and consequences for
learning and training
Ronald E. Purser and Albert Low
Unconventional pedagogies for embracing creative tensions and paradoxes: Using Zen Buddhist Koans in management education
Annie Camus, Luc K. Audebrand and Valérie Michaud
Embracing paradox in management education: An introduction to the co-operative advantage
Rosane Dal Magro, Marlei Pozzebon and Luciano Barin Cruz
Social business and service-learning: Lessons from innovative pedagogical experiences in Brazil and Senegal
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Mont-Tremblant
Paradox: Reflecting the Future
Chair: Wendy K. Smith, Luc K. Audebrand and Valérie Michaud
Group Discussion:
What have we learned in the past few days? How does our learning impact our scholarship? What questions does this learning raise for the future?
What have we learned in the past few days? How does our learning impact our scholarship? What questions does this learning raise for the future?