Thomas Schumacher
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  • Publication
    Communicative Dynamic to Reconstruct Paradoxes in Organizations
    (EGOS European Group for Organizational Studies, 2010-07-01)
    Tuckermann, Harald
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    Schumacher, Thomas
    ;
    Rüegg-Stürm, Johannes
    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.
    Type: conference paper
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/96237