Thesis Defense
The Uses of Ambiguity by Managers in a Change Context.
An Ethnographic Study.
Abstract
It shows how these managers mobilize complementary capabilities, so-called positive and negative, according to their preferences, in order to face the uncertainties of the change, and thus become ambiguity tamers.
Through a two-year ethnographic study, from the position of participant observer, we analyse seventeen managers, their subordinates and their directors. We show how these managers mobilize ambiguities and negative capability (i.e. the ability to remain in “uncertainties and doubts without reaching after fact and reason”, Keats, 1970; 43) as resources for change management.
Jury
Supervisor:
- Mr Hervé Laroche,
Professor, ESCP
Referees:
- Ms Christina Garsten,
Professor, Stockholm University - Mr Amaury Grimand,
Professor, IAE de Nantes
Suffragants:
- Ms Yvonne Giordano,
Professor, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis - Mr François Pichault,
Professor, HEC Université de Liège
Location
Organiser: ESCP Europe - Campus Paris
Paris - France
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Start date: 12/12/2019
Start time: 2:00 PM
End date: 29/03/2024
End time: 6:08 AM