Management, organizations and contemporary social theory / Stewart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha -- Ethnomethodology / Andrea Whittle & Frank Mueller -- Actor-network theory : Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, John Law / Damian O'Doherty -- Giddens and structuration theory / Ira Chatterjee, Jagat...

Paradoxes, contrary propositions that are not contestable separately but that are inconsistent when conjoined, constitute a pervasive feature of contemporary organizational life. When contradictory elements are constituted as equally important in day-to-day work, organizational actors frequently...