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Singapore airlines : achieving sustainable advantage through mastering paradox

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Heracleous, Loizos Th. and Wirtz, J. (2014) Singapore airlines : achieving sustainable advantage through mastering paradox. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Volume 50 (Number 2). pp. 150-170. doi:10.1177/0021886314522323 ISSN 0021-8863.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021886314522323

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Abstract

We explore how Singapore Airlines has become one of the highest performing and respected airlines in the world through its ability to transcend organizational paradoxes. We address four paradoxes: cost-effective service excellence, simultaneous decentralized and centralized innovation, being simultaneously a follower and a leader in service development, and accomplishing standardization as well as personalization in customer interactions. We employ empirical data from multiyear case research on Singapore Airlines to outline how the organization simultaneously balances dual capabilities (seen as poles of the paradoxes) that most other organizations would consider distinct or incompatible. We conclude that the ability to balance opposing poles and in this way transcend paradoxes is what affords Singapore Airlines its sustainable competitive advantage and that this ability is becoming more and more relevant to organizational effectiveness as competition intensifies.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
ISSN: 0021-8863
Official Date: June 2014
Dates:
DateEvent
June 2014Published
5 August 2014Accepted
Volume: Volume 50
Number: Number 2
Page Range: pp. 150-170
DOI: 10.1177/0021886314522323
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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