M W Lewis

Biographic Data

ID45545
NAMEM W Lewis
GIVEN NAMESM W
FAMILY NAMELewis
SIGNATURELEWIS M W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cincinnati
ORCID0000-0002-4658-9290
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS58
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Microfoundations of Organizational Paradox

    Ella Miron-Spektor, Ella Miron‐Spektor et al.ARTICLEAcademy of Management Journal2018

    Competing tensions and demands pervade our work lives. Accumulating research examines organizational and leadership approaches to leveraging these tensions. But what about individuals within firms? Although early paradox theory built upon micro-level insights from psychology and philosophy to understand the nature and management of varied competing demands, corresponding empirical studies are rare, offering scarce insights into why some individua…

  • Paradox Research in Management Science

    Jonathan Schad, M W Lewis et al.ARTICLEAcademy of Management Annals2016

    Paradox studies offer vital and timely insights into an array of organizational tensions. Yet this field stands at a critical juncture. Over the past 25 years, management scholars have drawn foundational insights from philosophy and psychology to apply a paradox lens to organizational phenomena. Yet extant studies selectively leverage ancient wisdom, adopting some key insights while abandoning others. Using a structured content analysis to review…

  • Paradox as a Metatheoretical Perspective

    Open AccessM W Lewis, Wilson K Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Applied Behavioral…2014

    Organizations are rife with tensions—flexibility versus control, exploration versus exploitation, autocracy versus democracy, social versus financial, global versus local. Researchers have long responded using contingency theory, asking “Under what conditions should managers emphasize either A or B?” Yet increasingly studies apply a paradox perspective, shifting the question to “How can we engage both A and B simultaneously?” Despite accumulating…

  • Toward a Theory of Paradox

    Wilson K Smith, Wendy K Smith et al.ARTICLEAcademy of Management Review2011

    As organizational environments become more global, dynamic, and competitive, contradictory demands intensify. To understand and explain such tensions, academics and practitioners are increasingly adopting a paradox lens. We review the paradox literature, categorizing types and highlighting fundamental debates. We then present a dynamic equilibrium model of organizing, which depicts how cyclical responses to paradoxical tensions enable sustainabil…

  • Toward a Theory of Paradox

    Wilson K Smith, Wendy K Smith et al.ARTICLEAcademy of Management Review2011

    As organizational environments become more global, dynamic, and competitive, contradictory demands intensify. To understand and explain such tensions, academics and practitioners are increasingly adopting a paradox lens. We review the paradox literature, categorizing types and highlighting fundamental debates. We then present a dynamic equilibrium model of organizing, which depicts how cyclical responses to paradoxical tensions enable sustainabil…

  • Managing creatives

    Open AccessManto Gotsi, Constantine Andriopoulos et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2010Cited by: 30References: 60

    Creative workers often experience identity tensions. On the one hand, ‘creatives’ desire to see themselves as distinctive in their artistry, passion, and self-expression, nurturing an identity that energizes their innovative efforts. Yet daily pressures to meet budgets, deadlines and market demands encourage a more business-like identity that supports firm performance. Through a comparative case study of New Product Design (NPD) consultancies, we…

  • Exploitation-Exploration Tensions and Organizational Ambidexterity

    Constantine Andriopoulos, M W LewisARTICLEOrganization Science2009

    Achieving exploitation and exploration enables success, even survival, but raises challenging tensions. Ambidextrous organizations excel at exploiting existing products to enable incremental innovation and at exploring new opportunities to foster more radical innovation, yet related research is limited. Largely conceptual, anecdotal, or single case studies offer architectural or contextual approaches. Architectural ambidexterity proposes dual str…

  • Organizational Change and Managerial Sensemaking

    Lotte S LÜScher, M W LewisARTICLEAcademy of Management Journal2008

    As change becomes a constant in organizational life, middle managers charged with interpreting, communicating, and implementing change often struggle for meaning. To explore change and managerial sensemaking, we conducted action research at the Danish Lego Company. Although largely absent from mainstream journals, action research offers exceptional access to and support of organizational sensemaking. Through collaborative intervention and reflect…

  • Multiparadigm Inquiry

    Open AccessM W Lewis, Mihaela Kelemen et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2002Cited by: 28References: 38

    Organization studies is a robust field, replete with diverse, often contentious perspectives that may enrich understandings of pluralism and paradox. Yet polarization of modern paradigms and ruptures between modern and postmodern stances may inhibit researchers from tapping this potential. In response, this article delves into a provocative alternative - multiparadigm inquiry. First, we juxtapose modern, postmodern and multiparadigm approaches to…