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Analyzing competing...
Analyzing competing demands in organizations : a systematic comparison
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- Gaim, Medhanie, 1983- (author)
- Umeå universitet,Företagsekonomi
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- Wåhlin, Nils (author)
- Umeå universitet,Företagsekonomi
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- Cunha, Miguel Pina e (author)
- Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Clegg, Stewart (author)
- Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Management Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- 2018-04-05
- 2018
- English.
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In: Journal of Organization Design. - : Springer. - 2245-408X. ; 7:6
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- Organizational scholars have shown increasing interest in the ways in which managers enact and respond to competing demands and the tensions they prompt as constitutive elements of their organizations. There is now a proliferation of conceptualizations of such competing demands that can be somewhat confusing. We will enhance conceptual clarity by identifying seven constitutive empirical characteristics of competing demands: these consist of the existence of dyadic relations, contradiction, interrelatedness, complementarity, compatibility, simultaneity, and the existence of push-pull forces. We construct a comparative classification of competing demands using these characteristics as our distinguishing features. The result is a more nuanced understanding of how managers approach competing demands that can help scholars to minimize arbitrariness, interpret results, and compare contributions in the area in a much-needed step toward understanding and designing organizations.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- competing demands
- organizational contradictions
- organizational design
- organizational tensions
- paradox theory
- företagsekonomi
- Business Studies
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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