Managing in uncertainty : the complexity and the paradoxes of everyday organizational life

ch. 1. Why are uncertainty, ambiguity and paradox important for managers? -- ch. 2. Taking paradox seriously -- ch. 3. The paradox of involvement and detachment : the importance of practical judgment -- ch. 4. Attempts to change organizational culture : the paradox of the local and the global -- ch. 5. On the predictable unpredictability of organizational life : change and innovation -- ch. 6. The paradox of cooperation and competition : conflict and the necessary politics of organizational life -- ch. 7. Ambiguity, contradition and paradox in the natural sciences : creative entanglement between the knower and the known -- ch. 8. Uncertainty, contradition and paradox : so what can managers do?