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...

Paradoxes, contrary propositions that are not contestable separately but that are inconsistent when conjoined, constitute a pervasive feature of contemporary organizational life. When contradictory elements are constituted as equally important in day-to-day work, organizational actors frequently...

Business networks and strategic alliances in China : an introduction / Stewart Clegg, Yuan Wang, and Mike Berrell -- The nature of power, control, trust, and risk in international joint ventures / Mike Berrell -- The role of culture in international business relations / Jan Selmer -- Social...