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1. Introduction: The Quest for Value

Author : Jan Heiberg Johansen

Published in: Paradox Management

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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More and more researchers and managers take an interest in organizational paradoxes, where we need to handle elements that are at once interdependent and contradictory.

Researchers claim that there is a close relationship between our responses to the paradoxes and the value we create for ourselves and others. This book is a quest for this value. It is based on the international research on organizational paradoxes, which is expanding in current years and now counts around 700 sources. The introduction frames the issue of organizational paradoxes.

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Title: Introduction: The Quest for Value
Author: Jan Heiberg Johansen
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Paradox Management
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-94814-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-94815-7

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94815-7_1