Communicative Dynamic to Reconstruct Paradoxes in Organizations
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2010-07-01
Author(s)
Abstract
The paper explores the question of how paradoxes become reproduced in daily organizing practice. Based on a single longitudinal case study of changing a nursing department, we demonstrate not only historically how a specific paradox emerged, and was unfolded successfully. But more so, and inspired by social systems theory, we use a the concept of communicative dynamic to depict how the paradox was reproduced within the daily organizing in which it is situated locally. In our view, the communicative dynamic provides a promising approach to explore paradoxes within organizations for academics and practitioners alike. It contributes to the understanding of paradoxes as integral to organizational life to pursue both/and approaches and encourages a paradoxical lens on organizational phenomena such as change processes.
Funding(s)
Language
English
Keywords
paradox
communication
hospital
social systems
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Waves of Globalization: Repetition and difference in organizing over time and space
Publisher
EGOS European Group for Organizational Studies
Publisher place
Berlin
Start page
36
Event Title
26th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium
Event Location
Lisbon
Event Date
28.06.-03.07.2010
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
70120