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A Transparadox Process of Decision Making

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2021

Dalong Pang ,
Leigh Anne Liu  and
Ming-Jer Chen
Dalong Pang
Affiliation:
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Leigh Anne Liu
Affiliation:
Georgia State University, USA
Ming-Jer Chen*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia, USA
*
Corresponding author: Ming-Jer Chen (chenm@darden.virginia.edu)
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Abstract

Decision makers inevitably face a variety of tensions when managing strategic change. Research from organization and strategy perspectives, such as paradox and organizational learning, has offered useful but limited insight into the systematic mindset and thinking processes involved in decision making. We draw on theoretical and philosophical foundations of the transparadox perspective and related theories to build a dynamic process cycle of transparadoxical decision making. Three interrelated dimensions make up our model: (1) Transparadox Information Navigation, which includes embracing oppositional tendencies, syncretic focus, and creative transcendence; (2) Transparadox Contextual Consideration, characterized by prudent precision and recognizing the flux of temporality and spatiality; and (3) Transparadox Integration, which comprises design-type integration and exploration-type integration. We then present propositions on the interdependent and reinforcing mechanism among the three dimensions. Our work expands the paradox literature with specific mindset dimensions and constituent elements, connecting paradox research with the cognitive perspective by adding dynamic, cyclical processes to paradox cognition study.

摘要

在管理战略变革时，决策制定者不可避免地面临各种各样的张力。以往在组织战略视角下做的研究，如悖论与组织学习，对决策制定的系统性心智模式和思维过程提供的见解有用但相当局限。本文援引超悖论视角的理论与哲学基础以及其它相应理论，构建了决策制定的超悖论动态循环过程模型。这一模型由三个互相关联的维度构成：（1）超悖论信息导航，包括主动采纳对立信息，聚焦于合成信息，和超越创生性三个要素；（2）超悖论情境考量，以谨慎精确和明辨时空为特征；（3）超悖论整合，由设计型整合与探索型整合组成。本文进而提出论述这三个维度之间互相依赖和互相增固机制的理论命题。本文不仅通过将具体的心智模式维度及其组成要素概念化而拓展了悖论研究，而且通过为悖论认知研究增添了动态、循环性过程，从而连接了悖论与认知视角的研究。

Keywords

cognitionConfucianismmindsetparadoxtransparadox超悖论悖论认知中庸心智模式
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Perspectives
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Management and Organization Review , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , June 2022 , pp. 427 - 462
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The International Association for Chinese Management Research

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