Paradoxien des Organisierens – ein zweiter Blick

In this contribution to the journal “Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. (GIO)”, sociologists Judith Muster and Maren Lehmann comment on a text by Günther Ortmann on the subject of paradoxes in organizations which can be downloaded here. The topics discussed include the importance of paradoxes for management and leadership, the relationship between rules and paradoxes, and the effects of paradoxes on institutional trust. Maren Lehmann holds the chair for sociological theory at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Judith Muster researches, teaches, and publishes at the University of Potsdam on topics such as post-bureaucratic organizational models.