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Surfacing and responding paradoxes in mega scale projects
This paper catalogues paradoxical tensions in megaprojects and outlines approaches to manage these tensions. The paper further offers insights into the role that project stakeholders play in surfacing and navigating paradoxes.
Read moreIdentifying and managing persisting tensions affecting strategic learning from projects
The paper identifies tensions affecting learning in the context of a multinational project-based organisation: project/ organisational identity, short-/ long-term-orientation and standardisation/ flexibility. The paper offers strategies to manage tensions.
Read moreYou can have your cake and eat it too: Embracing paradox of safety as source of progress in safety science
This paper aims to raise awareness of the paradoxical nature of workplace safety and to explore how paradoxical insights might advance safety research and practices, and offers recommendations for organisations to manage safety paradoxes.
Read moreCustomer heterogeneity and innovation-based competitive strategy: A review, synthesis, and research agenda
This paper is based upon a systematic review of the literature linking customer heterogeneity (CH) with innovation-based competitive advantage. Among findings, paradoxical tensions were found to be associated with each CH dimension.
Read moreComplex Adaptive Systems Theory in Information Systems Research- A Systematic Literature Review
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) is a way of thinking about systems of interacting agents and how order emerges in systems from the interactions of agents. The paper conducts a systematic literature review of CAS studies within Information Systems.
Read moreGenerativity and the paradox of stability and flexibility in a platform architecture: A case of the Oracle Cloud Platform
This paper uses the paradox of stability and flexibility to highlight how generativity emerges in a platform’s architectural components and proposes that generativity arises from three architectural components: the base, interface, and add-ons.
Read moreDesign Trade-offs for Electronic Intermediaries
Based upon four in-depth case studies this research provides constructive support for balancing interests and offers an exchange design model alongside patterns focusing on trade-offs for electronic intermediaries.
Read moreThe influence of social distancing on employee well-being: a conceptual framework and research agenda
This paper focuses on a Covid19 related paradox for many service organizations, specifically the tension between hibernation or continuity of business operations and the impacts on service employees' well-being.
Read moreThe business model portfolio as a strategic tool for value creation and business performance
This paper examines the growing body of literature on business model portfolios revealing that they are evolving into a strategic tool for value creation and business performance, and uncovers a range of paradoxical tensions.
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