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SOME REMARKS ON PARADOXES IN MANAGING COMPANY - SELECTED AREAS PERSPECTIVE
The globalization is challenges in every organization. Undoubtedly, today’s organizations face the necessity of dealing with a growing number of various tension and risk factors-generators. Nowadays, as stressed many researchers, management studies referring to paradox theory offer new and vital insights into an array of organizational tensions. Paradoxes has been widely researched in the science literature, nowadays also in the management literature. The authors of this publication have taken into account a wide range of international research literature. The aim of this paper is to theoretically refer to the problems of paradoxes in selected areas of management. The authors indicated the contradictions emerging in the areas such as: risk management, innovation and demography. The literature on paradox theory suggests the existence of four different types of paradox: namely, the paradoxes of organizing, performing, belonging and learning
Release: 2017/1 Pages: 19-26 JEL classification: D81, G32, M21, J20
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Keywords: paradoxes, risk management, innovation, demographic processes
Section: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MANAGEMENT
Contacts:
Iwona Gorzeń – Mitka PhD,
Monika Sipa, PhD,
Andrzej Skibiński PhD
Faculty of Management,
Czestochowa University of Technology
Dąbrowskiego 69, 42-201 Częstochowa
Poland
e-mail: iwona.mitka@zim.pcz.pl
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