Program

PDW 02:
Paradox Theory as a Way to Understand Complex Problems

 

Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 09:00–13:00

– Main room: 315
– Break-out rooms: 400A, 400B

 

Convenors

Tobias Hahn, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
Jonathan Schad, University of London, United Kingdom
Garima Sharma, University of New Mexico, USA

 

 

Wednesday, July 4, 2018
09:00 – 10:30	Introduction & Overview Introduction to Paradox Why is paradox lens interesting for complex issues? Publishing paradox Introduction of Participants
10:30 – 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 – 12:50	Parallel Round Tables [participants & their papers: see below]   Room 315 Round Table 1: Workplace and HRM Chair: Tobias Hahn Room 400A Round Table 2: Microfoundations Chair: Frank Figge Room 400B Round Table 3: Collaboration and Competition Chair: Garima Sharma Room 400B Round Table 4: Sustainability Tensions Chair: Dror Etzion Room 400B Round Table 5: Managing and Organizing in the Face of Tensions Chair: Jonathan Schad
12:50 – 13:00	Wrap-up

 

 

Round Table 1: Workplaces and HRM

• Andrea Simone Barth and Susanne Blazejewski: Space for tensions: Towards a framework for analysing tensions of new work spaces

• Julia Brandl: Handling tensions in human resource management: Insights from paradox theory

• Claudia Manca: When digital transformation hits the office desk: Exploring the paradoxes in the context of the alternative workplace

   

Round Table 2: Microfoundations

• Szilvia Mosonyi: Relational responses to paradoxical tensions in CSR consultants’ identity work

• Catherine Tilley: How executives resolve the tensions created by including social or environmental considerations in their decision-making: An examination of organisational capabilities

• Charline Collard: CSR as individual survival mechanism: When micro-paradoxes develop a paradox mindset: A theoretical perspective

• Angela Greco: Identity reflexivity and managerial sense-making: Facilitating change in sustainable enterprises

Round Table 3: Collaboration and Competition

• Eunice Maytorena‐Sanchez: Working through the acquisition paradox

• Iteke van Hille, Frank G.A. de Bakker and Peter Groenewegen: Crossing border in coffee: Addressing the tension of uniformity versus plurality in collaborative sustainability strategies

• Lisa Koep, Jonathan Morris and Edeltraud Guenther: Can Bangladesh’s textile sector be sustainable? Adopting a paradox perspective to deconstruct sustainability tensions of textile production and consumption

• Siarhei Manzhynski, Frank Figge, Maria Bengtsson and Herman Stål: Why do some competitors collaborate for sustainability and others do not? Paradoxical tensions of coopetition for sustainability: An outcome perspective

Round Table 4: Sustainability Tensions

• Sarah Bloomfield and Russ Vince: Seeing the wood without any trees: The paradox of the clearcutting custodians of England’s woodlands

• Belinda Wade and Andrew Griffiths: Uncertainty: a definitive barrier to decarbonisation or an issue of cognitive framing?

• Rosemary Sainty and Suzanne Benn: Corporate boards at the interface of corporate governance and corporate sustainability: In consideration of a paradox perspective

• Susanne Pankov, Dirk Schneckenberg and Vivek Velamuri: Paradoxes in the sharing economy: How founders manage complex and uncertain environments

Round Table 5: Managing and Organizing in the Face of Tensions

• Gaia Grant and Suresh Cuganesan: Dual leadership dynamics: Identifying how dual executive leaders navigate competing innovation demands in organisations

• Frédéric Delley: How paradox resolution strategies sustain paradoxical tensions: An exploratory study in the context of NPD

• Aurélien Feix: Simply confused or inherently contradictory? A deconstructive inquiry into the paradoxes of ‘diversity’

• Anna Wiewiora: Exploring tensions affecting multilevel learning in a project-based environment: A paradox theory perspective