With organizational environments becoming more unstable, uncertain and equivocal, the concept of resilience has become increasingly significant for management studies and practice. Resilience connotes organizational, team and individual capacities to absorb external shocks and to learn from...

"Presenting the emergence of new organizational designs in a novel way, this insightful book blends theory and practice to examine major trends and directions, the key ideas that underpin organizational design and how these ideas might be applied. The authors explore how, in a world...

Contents: Introduction -- 1. What is paradox? Tensions, contradictions and oppositions in organization studies -- 2. How to deal with paradoxes: The role of responses in the construction of paradoxical tension -- 3. The bright side: Paradoxes and positive organizational scholarship -- 4. The...