Middle managers’ strategies for coping with paradoxical tensions in change context

Guilmot, Nathalie;Vas, Alain
(2015) EGOS Colloquium — Location: Athens (2.July.2015)

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  • Guilmot, NathalieUCLouvain
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  • Vas, AlainUCLouvain
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This paper aims to understand how middle managers cope with paradoxical tension in change context. As it is increasingly common for organizations to have to simultaneously juggle with competing demands such as change vs stability (Farjoun, 2010; Stoltzfuz et al., 2011), exploitation vs exploration (Smith & Tushman, 2005) or collaboration vs control (Sundaramurthy & Lewis, 2003), the juxtaposition of coexisting opposites has increased experiences of paradoxical tension, challenging organizational actors in their daily work...
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Guilmot, N., & Vas, A. (2015). Middle managers’ strategies for coping with paradoxical tensions in change context. EGOS Colloquium, Athens. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/189605