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AOM - Paradox, Tensions, Dualities and Contradictions

  • 1.  AOM - Paradox, Tensions, Dualities and Contradictions

    Posted 07-17-2015 11:32
    Colleagues  -

    This year’s Academy of Management schedule abounds with sessions on paradox, plurality, duality and contradictions , as we collectively seek to understand the increasing experience of competing demands at the field, organizational and individual levels.  Below, we offer a consolidated list of AOM sessions addressing these topics. If your research explores (will explore) these domains, we hope you will consider joining us for some of these events.

     

    Process Research PDW: Using Tensions and Contradictions to Advance Process Research;   #102          

    Friday, Aug 7 11:15AM – 2:15PM at The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver in Waddington Room

    Participants Include: Jennifer Howard-Grenville; Moshe Farjoun; Elaine C. Hollensbe; Glen E. Kreiner; Wendy K. Smith; Marya L. Besharov; Paula Jarzabkowski

     

    A Research Incubator for Exploring the Interplay Between Priorities: Errors and Innovation; #322

    Saturday, Aug 8 2015 10:15AM - 12:15PM at Hyatt Regency Vancouver in Balmoral

    Participants Include: Miriam Erez; Zhanna Novikov; Technion; Zhike Lei; Ella Miron-Spektor; Eitan Naveh

     

    Lenses on Competing Demands: Comparing Paradox Theory and Institutional Theory; #: 463

    Saturday, Aug 8 4:30PM – 6:30PM; Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 109

    Participants Include;  Wendy K. Smith; Royston Greenwood; Michael Smets; Paul Tracey; Jane Kirsten Le; Marianne W. Lewis 

    Professionalism in a Pluralistic World: The Quest for Common Ground in Governance & Management ; #590                     

    Sunday, Aug 9 11:15AM – 12:45PM at Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Waterfront Ballroom C

    Participants Include: Georges Romme; David Denyer; Jean M. Bartunek; Timothy Michael Devinney; Mark Learmonth; Denise M. Rousseau; Andrew H. Van de Ven

     

    The Paradox Perspective: Current Applications and Future Agendas; #1021

    Monday, Aug 10 2015 9:45AM - 11:15AM at Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 015

    Participants include:  Paula Jarzabkowski, Achim Schmitt; Sebastian Raisch, Wesley Helms, Luc Pierre Bres; Amy Ingram; Jeroen Wolbers; Peter Groenewegen; Kees Boersma, Jonathan Schad, Sebastian Raisch, Wendy Smith, Marianne Lewis

     

    Sustaining Hybridity in Organizations: Incubation, Socialization, Mediation and Non-Reflexivity; #1261 

    Monday, Aug 10 1:15PM – 2:45PM at Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 121

    Participants Include: Royston Greenwood, Christopher Benoit, Kevin Curran, Tom Paul Vanderbroek, Fabrizio Ferraro, Heinrich Liechtenstein, James Dunn, Ziva Sharp, Nurit Zaidman

     

    Examining Paradox at the Individual Level; Session #1460

    Monday, Aug 10;  4:45PM – 6:15PM; Marriott Downtown Hotel; Shaughnessy Salon 1

    Participants Include: Amy Y. Ou, Josh Keller, Marianne Lewis, Bradley Paul Owens, Angela Wallace, David Waldman, Xingye Liang, Gabriel Henry Jacob, Erica Wen Chen, Neha Tripathi

     

    Paradox, Pluralism & Ambidexterity; #: 1788

    Tuesday, Aug 11 9:45AM – 11:15AM; Pan Pacific Vancouver in Gazebo 1

    Participants include: Marianne Lewis; Suvi Einola; Marko Kohtamäki, Iris-Ariane Hengst, Miriam Muethel, Abhijit B Ghosh; Laurent Mirabeau

     

    Differentiating and Integrating the Eastern and Western Approaches to Paradox Management

    Paradox in East and West; #1865

    Tuesday, Aug 11 11:30AM – 1:00PM at Marriott Downtown Hotel in Shaughnessy Salon 1

    Participants Include: Peter Ping Li; Marianne W. Lewis; Andrew H. Van de Ven; Tony Fang; Ian Mitroff; Jason R Pierce; Runtian Jing;Yan Zhang; Tobias Hahn; Ella Miron-Spektor

     

    Paradox and Sustainability: Moving Beyond the Business Case; #: 1270

    Monday, Aug 10 1:15PM – 2:45PM; Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 207

    Participants Include: Garima Sharma; Tobias Hahn; Alfred Allen Marcus, Andrew Hoffman, Lianne Lefsrud, Natalie Slawinski, Jonathan Pinkse, Frank Figge, Lutz Preuss, Ina Ehnert, Jean-Pascal Gond, Valerie Swaen

     

    ODC DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER: LINDA PUTNAM; #1371

    Monday, August 10 3:00-4:30 PM, Vancouver Convention Centre in East Ballroom C

    Using a Discourse Lens to Explore Tensions and Contradictions in Organizational Theory and Change: In this presentation, Professor Linda Putnam will share her latest thinking on the role that discourse plays in theorizing, analyzing, and managing tensions in organizational life.


    Related event: Memorial for Professor Kwok Leung
    WHEN: 4:00-5:00pm, August 9th, Sunday
    WHERE: Waddington Room of The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
    This event is devoted to remembering the life and work of Professor Kwok Leung.


    'Drinking Away Tensions' - A chance to casually connect

    Sunday, Aug 9th, 4 pm; Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Showcase Restaurant

    Please join us for a chance to casually connect with scholars exploring paradox, dualities, tensions and contradictions. For more information, contact Camille Pradies – Camille.pradies@edhec.edu; or Garima Sharma gsharma@ivey.uwo.ca.