This article presents a constitutive approach to the study of organizational contradictions,
dialectics, paradoxes, and tensions. In particular, it highlights five constitutive dimensions …

Understanding and evaluating the implementation of complex interventions in practice is an
important problem for healthcare managers and policy makers, and for patients and others …

Digital transformation poses critical challenges to organizations. The initial phase–the “fuzzy
front-end “–in such a profound innovation process is often perceived as ill-defined and …

Purpose–Previous work on paradox and contradiction has argued for management
approaches that transcend dilemmas through a kind of creative synthesis. The purpose of …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics of networked power in a
concentrated business network. Power is a long standing theme in inter-organizational …

Research on customer–supplier relationships in business markets has evidenced the
centrality of interaction processes. However, while several studies examine interaction …

With the cooperation between hospitals and advanced technologies such as mobile Internet,
big data and cloud computing, emerging technologies and new service models have been …

This chapter introduces activity theory as an approach for studying Strategy as Practice.
Activity theory conceptualizes the ongoing construction of activity as a product of activity …

This article develops the concept of multilevel contradictions in organizing processes, from
the perspective of cultural–historical activity theory. In most activity theory–based …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the “interacted” actor and connect it
with practices of managerial value creation in an interactive business world. In doing so, it …