Performing Organizational Paradoxes

The book "Performing Organizational Paradoxes" takes a constitutive, process approach to organizational paradoxes, emphasizing their performative nature and sociomaterial foundations. It broadens the constitutive approach and addresses debates and inaccuracies, providing insights for novice and advanced scholars. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in communication, management, educational administration, and organizational psychology.

Format: Hardback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Performing Organizational Paradoxes takes a comprehensive and process-oriented approach to organizational paradoxes, emphasizing their performative nature. It delves into the underlying dialectical tensions, sociomaterial foundations, and power dynamics that give rise to paradoxes, sustain them, and facilitate their transformation.

The book establishes a constitutive perspective within the existing organizational paradox literature, broadening its scope and addressing various debates and misconceptions surrounding it. For novice readers, several early chapters provide an insightful exploration of how paradoxical tensions emerge, elicit responses, and interrelate to shape organizing outcomes. For advanced readers, later chapters delve into the prevalence of power and paradox, the ways in which bodies escape the confines of paradox narratives, the potential of inventive category work to resist power-imbued paradoxes, and an agenda for future research that encourages scholars to focus more on the process aspects of paradox.

By filling an important gap in the literature, this book serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students in communication, management, educational administration, organizational psychology, and any other fields that study organizations. It offers a deep understanding of the complexities and dynamics that shape organizational paradoxes, providing insights into their origins, consequences, and potential for transformation.

Weight: 620g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367856335