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The Classroom as a Potential Space-teaching Negotiation through Paradox
Laurence, de Carlo - ESSEC Business School - 2007
In this article, we describe and analyze a way of teaching negotiation which recognizes and accepts paradoxes, such as caring and frustrating the students at the same time and helping them being more autonomous while manipulating them. In this analysis, the classroom is considered tantamount to...
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War and individual creativity : tentative evidence in relation to composers
Borowiecki, Karol Jan; O'Hagan, John W. - 2011
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Organizational routines, creative projects, and their antecedents : Causal evidence from laboratory experiments
Oehler, Patrick Julian - 2019
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The hero figure in Business and Cinema
Fournout, Olivier - HAL - 2012
Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...
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Creativity in the Outcomes of Conflict
2007
How does creativity play out in social conflict? Just like Mark Twain's observation about difference of opinion and … conflict. If creativity is applied to the handling of differences, the outcome might very well be a mutually beneficial …, integrative agreement; but just as well, creativity can be applied to contentiousness, pursuit of selfish interests, and …
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Chinese household consumption: how much is enough?
Guo, Qingwang - In: China Finance and Economic Review 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-8
Background: As per currently accepted methodology of national economic accounting, China's household consumption rate is considered relatively low. This paper discusses the evolvement of China's consumption over time. Methods: Employing two different measures of consumption, I compare the growth...
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Two envelope problems and the roles of ignorance
Malinas, Gary - 2003
Four variations on Two Envelope Paradox are stated and compared. The variations are employed to provide a diagnosis and … an explanation of what has gone awry in the paradoxical modeling of the decision problem that the paradox poses. The … canonical formulation of the paradox underdescribes the ways in which one envelope can have twice the amount that is in the …
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Strong and weak lifespan extension: What is most feasible and likely?
Lucke, J. C.; Hall, W. D. - 2006
Recent advances in biomedical science indicate that it may eventually be possible to intervene in the biological process of human ageing. This paper overviews the current state of the science of lifespan extension and promising future directions. It is uncertain whether 'strong' lifespan...
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Paradox in Positive Organizational Change
Cameron, Kim - 2008
Positive organizational change is a paradox. On the one hand, natural human inclinations toward the positive and … reconcile the paradox of positive change is proposed. New investigations of positive organizational change are introduced which … address various aspects of the positive change paradox. …
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Managing the Tension between Standardization and Customization in IT-enabled Service Provisioning: A Sensemaking Perspective
Lewis, Mark O. - 2008
The outsourcing literature has offered a plethora of perspectives and models for understanding decision determinants and outcomes of outsourcing of business processes. While past studies have contributed significantly to scholarly research in this area, there are an insufficient number of...
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