Responding to competing strategic demands: How organizing, belonging, and performing paradoxes coevolve

Strategic Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 245-280

  Jarzabkowski, Paula ^a,b   Lê, Jane K ^c   Van de Ven, Andrew H ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; dialectics; organizing; paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881254809     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127013481016     Document Type: Article

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