Toward a Holistic and Dynamic Framework of Paradox Management:

 Product Innovation in High-Tech Firms

Paradox management is critical to a firm’s competitiveness in product innovation, which is characterized by high-level complexity, dynamism, uncertainty, and resource scarcity. Despite a surge of research on organizational paradoxes in recent years, there is still a lack of a holistic and dynamic framework of paradox management in the context of product innovation. Through a qualitative study of 72 managers in 17 high-tech firms in China, we explicate a holistic and dynamic model of paradox management with specific stages and mechanisms. We find that in the first stage of the dynamic process of paradox management, initiated by contextual triggers, the decision-makers frame the nature of paradox from latent to salient based upon the microfoundations of personal capabilities and values. In the second stage, they enact distinctive approaches to paradox management according to their framing of the paradoxical tension. Importantly, we find that when the tension in a paradox is within the scope of decision-makers’ microfoundations, they tend to enact the approach of regular balancing; yet if the paradoxical tension exceeds the scope of their microfoundations, they often enact the approach of transformative balancing by relaxing the core constraints underlying paradoxical tensions toward innovative outcomes. Finally, we unpack the inherent links between specific approaches to paradox management and specific dimensions and types of dynamic capability.

主讲人:

        邹波,哈尔滨工业大学73882必赢网页版院长助理，战略与创新系副教授，博士生导师。曾任美国密苏里大学（堪萨斯）研究员。现为国际产品创新著名期刊JPIM的客座编辑，担任Academy of Management(AOM) 学会会员、中国管理研究国际学会会员、中国战略管理学会副秘书长、黑龙江省工商管理学会常务理事、黑龙江省管理科学与工程学会常务理事，国家自然科学基金同行评议专家等学术职务。是Industrial Management & Data Systems、International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal、AOM、《研究与发展管理》、《科学学研究》等国内外10余本学术期刊和会议的审稿人。

邹波博士主要从事创新创业管理、战略管理、知识管理等领域的研究和教学工作。近年来，作为课题负责人承担国家自然科学基金2项、其他省部级科研项目16项。在IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Industrial Management & Data Systems, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal等国内外学术期刊上发表学术论文40余篇，获2018年AOM创新创业领域最佳论文奖。

时间:2018年5月28日上午10点

地点:文新楼716教室