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Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit your best work to our Subtheme 09 Paradoxes of Enlightenment: Enlightenment of Paradoxes. Short Paper (3000 words) submission deadline is January 14, 2019. Please submit via https://www.egosnet.org/2019_edinburgh/colloquium

 We have a great group of scholars who will share their insights on paradox theory and scholarship between the paper sessions:

You can find more details about the Sub-theme here: https://bit.ly/2zcDXxK

In this Sub-theme, we want to shine light on how contemporary political, social, technological, and cultural challenges unsettle individuals, teams, organizations and even institutions, making paradoxical tensions salient; and how actors across levels can engage with and respond to these paradoxical tensions to foster positive impact. We also welcome research that broadly addresses issues of organizational paradox. We outline some illustrative topics below, as well invite submissions beyond this list:

• Tackling paradoxes of grand challenges. We are looking for scholarship that addresses how technological, political, social, and cultural disruptions reveal new fault lines in business responsibility, and how this phenomenon informs and can be informed by theories of paradox.
• Identity renaissance in the age of paradoxes. We invite papers that explore how identity (at the individual, team, and organizational level) is being challenged or even transformed in the context of grand challenges; and the role of identity work and identity regulation in addressing these challenges.
• The dark side of paradoxes. We invite submissions that unpack the potential 'dark side' of paradox. Can the management of paradoxes also generate a dark side, with not so glorious side effects for individuals, teams, organizations, and society at large?
• Knowledge production in the post-truth era. Like never before, science is being questioned. The challenges of today's 'post-truth' era bring with it the opportunity to revisit how we produce knowledge and our roles as scholars in addressing societal problems. We invite scholars to submit work that studies the phenomenon of academic-practitioner collaboration (or employs such collaboration in their own research design) to speak to the paradoxes of knowledge generation.

 For more information, please contact the Sub-theme conveners listed below. We look forward to your submissions!

Conveners:

 

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Garima Sharma
Assistant Professor
Anderson School of Management
University of New Mexico
https://www.mgt.unm.edu/faculty/facultyDetails.asp?id=10660

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