1st Edition
Management, Organizations, and Paradoxes Insights from the Central and Eastern European Region
Editors’ Introduction
Malgorzata Rozkwitalska-Welenc, Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska, and Anna Maria Lis
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO PARADOX THEORY AND PRACTICE
Chapter 1. Exploring the Complex Area of Organizational Paradoxes: Overcoming Methodological Obstacles
Adrian Lis
Chapter 2. Organizational Paradox Theory: Managing Competing Demand Then and Now
Jacek Rybicki
Chapter 3. Ambidexterity: A Strategic Approach to Overcoming Exploration and Exploitation Paradox
Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska
PART II. PARADOXES IN MANAGING PEOPLE
Chapter 4. Human Resource Paradoxes in a Belgian Subsidiary of a Multinational Enterprise: An Ethnographic Case Study
Gabriela Misiura
Chapter 5. Homo Managerius: The Paradox of Leadership
Ewa Marjańska, Joanna Czerska, and Dobrochna Sztajerska
Chapter 6. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policy Paradoxes: Insights from the Central and Eastern European Hospitality Sector
Marcin Panek
PART III. MANAGING LEARNING PARADOXES
Chapter 7. Paradoxes in Innovation: Navigating the Duality of Closed versus Open Innovation and Business versus Non-profit Innovations
Elżbieta Wojnicka-Sycz, Piotr Sycz, and Candace TenBrink
Chapter 8. Workplace Learning through Organizational and Leadership Paradoxes: Insights from Multinational Enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe
Agnieszka Miarecka
PART IV. SUSTAINABILITY PARADOXES
Chapter 9. Conflicting Demands of Sustainable Digital Transformation
Damian Ciachorowski and Elem Miranda
Chapter 10. Energy Clusters in Reconciling Paradoxes in Corporate Sustainability
Anna Maria Lis and Malgorzata Rozkwitalska-Welenc
Chapter 11. Energy Transition through the Energy-based Industrial Clusters: Paradoxes and Their Solutions
Chen Xiu
Biography
Malgorzata Rozkwitalska-Welenc is a Professor of Economics specializing in Organizational Science and Organizational Behavior. She works at WSB Merito University in Gdansk, Poland.
Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska is a Professor of Strategic Management and the Head of Management and Quality Studies at Lodz University of Technology, Poland.
Anna Maria Lis is a Professor of Innovation Management, Inter-Organizational Cooperation, and Sustainable Development at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland.
