CULTURE & PARADOX

3 important questions on CULTURE & PARADOX

What are the 3 approaches of how you can see organizations according to Martin?

1. Integration (common viewpoint)
2. Differentiation (recognize the existence of subcultures)
3. Fragmentation (ambiguity and uncertainty) --> different perspectives

Name the 4 methods on how you can address paradoxes.

1. Difficulty in reconciling the explanation of behaviour with the equally strong claim that is the product of purposive action
2. Good arguments for 2 incompatible conceptualizations of organizational climate
3. Are organizations stable orders, or continually changing emergents?
4. Trade-off between the need to establish individual identity in groups and the collective nature of group action (anomalies)

What is the critique in Poole?

- Not a complete representation
- Specify relations
- From one paradox, comes another
- Coleman: how individual actions combine to collective structures
- Comparative analysis on both sides

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