Join us for this symposium that addresses key issues on the sociomateriality of paradoxes, particularly organizational performances that incorporate material, digital, time/space, and power in paradoxes.
Symposium #848: Enacting Organizational Paradoxes: Performances, Sociomaterialities, Dialectics, and Power (14702)
Sunday, August 11, 13:15-14:45 CT(GMT-5/UTC-5) at the
Fairmont Hotel, Embassy Room
Sponsored by OMT, CTO, SAP divisions.
Abstract: Over the past 25 years, the study of organizational paradox has become an important metatheory. This symposium centers on an emergent approach to paradoxes, one grounded in a constitutive view of paradox as performances. The panelists will engage in a formal, moderated discussion of the contours of this approach, particularly its implications for the role of dialectics in paradoxes, capturing multiple embedded tensions, and centering on the sociomaterial aspects of paradoxes-namely, emotional and bodily responses, technology, and time/space. In doing so, it takes a more critical turn to situate power/resistance as central to paradox theory.
Organizer and Moderator: Linda L. Putnam, U of CA, Santa Barbara
Organizer and Panelist: Gail T. Fairhurst, U. of Cincinnati
Panelist: Rebecca Bednarek, Victoria Management School
Panelist: Timothy J. Hargrave, Central Washington U.
Panelist: Timothy Kuhn, U. of Colorado, Boulder
Panelist: DaJung Woo, Rutgers U., New Brunswick
No specific registration is required.
-- Linda L. Putnam
Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita
Department of Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara 93109