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Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Team Model for Simultaneously Exploring and Exploiting

In: Handbook of Top Management Teams

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  • Wendy K. Smith
  • Michael L. Tushman

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Sustained organisational performance depends on top management teams effectively exploring and exploiting. These strategic agendas are, however, associated with contradictory organisational architectures. Using the literature on paradox, contradictions and conflict, we develop a model of managing strategic contradictions that is associated with paradoxical cognition—senior leaders and/or their teams a) articulating a paradoxical frame, b) differentiating between the strategy and architecture for the existing product and those for innovation, and c) integrating between those strategies and architectures. We further argue that the locus of paradox in top management teams resides either with the senior leader or with the entire team. We identify a set of top management team conditions that facilitate a team’s ability to engage in paradoxical cognitive processes.

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  • Wendy K. Smith & Michael L. Tushman, 2010. "Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Team Model for Simultaneously Exploring and Exploiting," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank Bournois & Jérôme Duval-Hamel & Sylvie Roussillon & Jean-Louis Scaringella (ed.), Handbook of Top Management Teams, chapter 6, pages 60-70, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30533-5_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230305335_7
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