Contradictions in context : puzzling over paradoxes in contemporary organizations /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Koot, Willem Cornelis Jozef, 1948-, Sabelis, Ida, 1954-, Ybema, Sierk, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1996.
Series:Anthropological studies VU ; 19.
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Table of Contents:
  • Global identity, local oddity? paradoxical processes in contemporary organizations / Willem Koot, Ida Sabelis en Sierk Ybema
  • Paradoxes in social science and research / Joop Teunissen
  • The duck-billed platypus in the theory and analysis of organizations: combinations of consensus and dissensus / Sierk Ybema
  • The rhetoric of synergy and the practice of increasing ethnic rivalry in organizations / Willem Koot
  • Globalization and the local development of models for management and organization: the periphery talks back / Peter Prud'homme van Reine
  • The paradox of dependency: cross-cultural relations of three Dutch development organizations and their Bolivian counterparts
  • Alfons van Marrewijk
  • Strategy as paradox and paradox as strategy; images of and paradoxes in Chinese culture : expatriate managers in Sino-Western joint ventures / Harry Wels
  • Between contrariness and complaisance; the paradox of power: about tools of upward influence in the Netherlands / Allard Willemier Westra
  • Temporal paradoxes: working with cultural diversity in organizations / Ida Sabelis
  • In search of wholeness in a fragmented business world; spiritual workshops and their participants / Ineke Hogema.