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CUFE-BS Academic Seminar: Decomposing Both/And: SMART Strategies for Balancing Paradoxical Opposites
Date :2024-06-26

Time:13:00 - 16:30 AM,26 June, 2024

   

Speaker: Dr Xin Li is currently an Associate Professor (permanent faculty position) at Newcastle University Business School, UK, and was previously an Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research areas are corporate strategy, international business, management paradoxes, and Chinese local management studies. He has published in Academy of Management Review, Management and Organisation Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Asia Pacific Business Review, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, Journal of Management, Nankai Management Review International Edition, Foreign Economics and Management, Chinese Culture and Management, etc. He has published more than thirty papers in English and Chinese in domestic and international academic journals, and has been published in AOM, AIB, SMS, EGOS, IACMR and other international conferences. In 2015, he was awarded a DKK 1,320,000 research grant by Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark, to conduct an independent study on the international catching-up phenomenon of late-stage enterprises in China.

    

Abstract:

The organisational paradox literature points to the importance of ‘both/and’ thinking and action. Although the concept of ‘both/and’ has largely been viewed as a unifying concept, scholars of paradoxical studies have associated it with a variety of responses to paradoxical tensions, such as duality, yin-yang balance, and the middle way. In order to clarify this line of research, this paper aims to deconstruct the notion of both/and and identify a generic strategy for balancing contradictory oppositions, i.e., holding or realising both elements of contradictory tension at the same time. We first review existing categorisations of paradoxical tensions to identify six unique either/or response strategies. We then use these unique response strategies to help construct a classification system for integrating ten generic strategies that fall into five categories described as superficial, multiverse, fusion, reconciliation, and transcendence (hence the SMART acronym). Finally, we present a guiding model on how to select generic strategies in different situations.

   

    

    

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