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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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While paradox is increasingly presented in organisational literature as a normal, even advisable element, it is still … with respect to the paradox management that has been delegated to them, to analyse the extent to which this delegation … that individuals adopt four types of positions when faced with paradox : rejection, detachment, absorption, and …
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the stakes of political competition, and therefore reduce the intensity of the conflict over political power. In …
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mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a simple model of decentralization as an … conflict only when those conditioning factors are controlled for. Furthermore, decentralization dampens all forms of ethnic …
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that aims at separating attitudes toward risk, imprecision and conflict and at determining if there is a demand for … under risk than under ambiguity (embracing here imprecision and conflict), revealing that people consider ambiguous … situations as inferior. Furthermore, respondents behave differently under imprecision and conflict. They exhibit a preference for …
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Several recent works point out that design is one of the main driver of innovation. Therefore, it is interesting to analyze how design contributes to these last process. The point of view we present in this communication assumes that design is based on a specific rational we called creative...
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the contribution of creativity in strategic foresight activities through the analysis of a collaborative research led in …/ in expliciting the benefits of joined creativity and strategic foresight. …
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Organizations often launch exploration projects (EP) aiming at developing innovative products (or services) by the exploration of new technologies, users, ecosystems or business models. Because a fundamental purpose of any project is to create value, the approach of value management (or value...
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Integration of creative individuals in innovation processes is crucial. Nevertheless their identification is particularly challenging. From a psychological standpoint, the importance of mental imagery in the creative process has been highlighted. A first study examines the relationship between...
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heterogeneous effects on the efficiency of the ideation stage. Moreover, whereas efficiency criteria for creativity sessions are … well known (fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration), creativity techniques focus on the improvement and monitoring … creativity sessions, as if it was not considered as an issue in research on creativity management. Yet, one consequence of the …
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