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DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING: A MODEL OF SENIOR LEADERS MANAGING STRATEGIC PARADOXES by SMITH, WENDY K.

“…Senior leaders increasingly embed paradoxes into their organization's strategy, but struggle to manage them effectively. To better understand how they do so, I…”
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New Ways of Seeing through Qualitative Research by Bansal, Pratima (Tima), Smith, Wendy K., Vaara, Eero

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MICROFOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL PARADOX: THE PROBLEM IS HOW WE THINK ABOUT THE PROBLEM by MIRON-SPEKTOR, ELLA, INGRAM, AMY, KELLER, JOSHUA, SMITH, WENDY K., LEWIS, MARIANNE W.

“…Competing tensions and demands pervade our work lives. Accumulating research examines organizational and leadership approaches to leveraging these tensions…”
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Paradox Research in Management Science: Looking Back to Move Forward by Schad, Jonathan, Lewis, Marianne W., Raisch, Sebastian, Smith, Wendy K.

“…Paradox studies offer vital and timely insights into an array of organizational tensions. Yet this field stands at a critical juncture. Over the past 25 years,…”
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Adding Complexity to Theories of Paradox, Tensions, and Dualities of Innovation and Change: Introduction to Organization Studies Special Issue on Paradox, Tensions, and Dualities of Innovation and Change by K. Smith, Wendy, Erez, Miriam, Jarvenpaa, Sirkka, Lewis, Marianne W., Tracey, Paul

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Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Model for Managing Innovation Streams by Smith, Wendy K, Tushman, Michael L

“…Sustained organizational performance depends on top management teams effectively exploring and exploiting. These strategic agendas are, however, associated…”
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Bowing before Dual Gods: How Structured Flexibility Sustains Organizational Hybridity by Smith, Wendy K., Besharov, Marya L.

“…Organizations increasingly grapple with hybridity—the combination of identities, forms, logics, or other core elements that would conventionally not go…”
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MULTIPLE INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS IN ORGANIZATIONS: EXPLAINING THEIR VARIED NATURE AND IMPLICATIONS by BESHAROV, MARYA L., SMITH, WENDY K.

“…Multiple institutional logics present a theoretical puzzle. While scholars recognize their increasing prevalence within organizations, research offers…”
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TOWARD A THEORY OF PARADOX: A DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF ORGANIZING by SMITH, WENDY K., LEWIS, MARIANNE W.

“…As organizational environments become more global, dynamic, and competitive, contradictory demands intensify. To understand and explain such tensions,…”
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Toward a Theory of Paradox: A Dynamic equilibrium Model of Organizing by Smith, Wendy K., Lewis, Marianne W.

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Institutional complexity and paradox theory: Complementarities of competing demands by Smith, Wendy K., Tracey, Paul

“…Organizational success increasingly depends on leaders’ abilities to address competing demands simultaneously. Scholars have applied both institutional theory…”
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Paradoxical Leadership to Enable Strategic Agility by Lewis, Marianne W., Andriopoulos, Constantine, Smith, Wendy K.

“…Strategic agility evokes contradictions, such as stability-flexibility, commitment-change, and established routines-novel approaches. These competing demands…”
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Managing Social-Business Tensions: A Review and Research Agenda for Social Enterprise by Smith, Wendy K., Gonin, Michael, Besharov, Marya L.

“…In a world filled with poverty, environmental degradation, and moral injustice, social enterprises offer a ray of hope. These organizations seek to achieve…”
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Paradox as a Metatheoretical Perspective: Sharpening the Focus and Widening the Scope by Lewis, Marianne W., Smith, Wendy K.

“…Organizations are rife with tensions—flexibility versus control, exploration versus exploitation, autocracy versus democracy, social versus financial, global…”
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Quo vadis, paradox? Centripetal and centrifugal forces in theory development by Schad, Jonathan, Lewis, Marianne W, Smith, Wendy K

“…Organizations increasingly face contradictory goals, multiple stakeholder expectations, and pluralistic missions that surface and intensify competing demands…”
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“What may be”: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for paradox theory by Bednarek, Rebecca, Smith, Wendy K

“…Scholars increasingly turn to paradox theory to offer insight into our world’s greatest challenges. Yet to contribute to radical strategy theorizing concerning…”
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Managing the Paradoxes of Place to Foster Regeneration by Slawinski, Natalie, Winsor, Blair, Mazutis, Daina, Schouten, John W., Smith, Wendy K.

“…Organizations face and contribute to mounting social problems and environmental degradation. Regenerative organizations seek to reverse this damage,…”
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A Paradoxical Leadership Model for Social Entrepreneurs: Challenges, Leadership Skills, and Pedagogical Tools for Managing Social and Commercial Demands by SMITH, WENDY K., BESHAROV, MARYA L., WESSELS, ANKE K., CHERTOK, MICHAEL

“…Social enterprises offer the promise of financially sustainable organizations that can respond to the world's most pressing problems. Yet for social…”
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Addressing Grand Challenges’ Paradoxes: Leadership Skills to Manage Inconsistencies by Schad, Jonathan, Smith, Wendy K.

“…Our world increasingly presents grand challenges, such as climate change, poverty, and digitalization. Their inherent complexity creates paradoxical tensions…”
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Diverging and Converging: Integrative Insights on a Paradox Meta-perspective by Fairhurst, Gail T., Smith, Wendy K., Banghart, Scott G., Lewis, Marianne W., Putnam, Linda L., Raisch, Sebastian, Schad, Jonathan

“…The Academy of Management Annals Diverging and Converging: Integrative Insights on a Paradox Meta-perspective…”
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