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Knight, Eric and Paroutis, Sotirios (2017) Becoming salient : the TMT leader’s role in shaping the interpretive context of paradoxical tensions. Organization Studies, 38 (3-4). pp. 403-432. doi:10.1177/0170840616640844 ISSN 0170-8406.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616640844
Abstract
How do paradoxical tensions become salient in organizations over time? Ambidexterity and paradox studies have, thus far, primarily focused on how tensions inside organizations are managed after they have been rendered salient for actors. Using a longitudinal, embedded case study of four strategic business units (SBUs) within a media organization, we theorize the role of the top management team (TMT) leader’s practices in enabling tensions to become salient for their respective lower level managers when there are initial differences in how tensions are interpreted across levels. Our findings extend a dynamic equilibrium model of organizing by adding interpretive context as an enabling condition that shapes the emergence of salience through the provision of a constellation of cues that guide sensemaking. Informed by a practicebased perspective on paradox, we also contribute a conceptual model of leadership as practice, and outline the implications for ambidexterity studies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Leadership , Executive ability, Supervision of employees, Industrial relations, Management rights | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0170-8406 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||||
Number: | 3-4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 403-432 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840616640844 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 February 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 August 2016 |
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