Lewis, Marianne W.: Paradoxes of Change and Changing Through Paradox

Jonathan Schad () and Ella Miron-Spektor ()
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Jonathan Schad: King’s Business School
Ella Miron-Spektor: INSEAD

Chapter 57 in The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers, 2021, pp 951-965 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores Marianne Lewis’s work as an organizational change thinker. To her, change is best understood as driven by the interplay of paradoxical forces. These opposites contradict one another but are at the same time fundamentally interwoven. Over the past two decades, Marianne Lewis translated this abstract idea into one of the most burgeoning fields of management and organization research: paradox theory. Paradox theory helps us understand the nature of tensions in organizations, the recursive dynamics of opposites, and approaches to manage them successfully. We explore paradox theory’s path from an initial idea to an established framework, a path reflecting Lewis’s scholarly work. Looking at paradox theory through the biography of one of its key intellectual figures sheds new light on how her collected work impacted the way we understand organizational change.

Keywords: Paradox theory; Change; Recursive dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4_114

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