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DESCRIPTION:Wendy Smith\n\nUniversity of Delaware\n\nInvitational Contexts:
  How leaders foster environments for navigating paradox\n\nDate: Tuesday N
 ovember 18\, 2025\n	Time: 2:30pm – 3:45pm\n	Location: Bronfman 301\n\nAll ar
 e cordially invited to attend.\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nParadox theory highlights
  the importance of not only engaging organizational tensions\, but also ef
 fectively cascading this complex strategy across organizations. Extant the
 ory emphasizes top-down framing or structural solutions that underplay emo
 tional and cognitive challenges. Drawing on a multi-year inductive study o
 f Shorefast Foundation\, a paradox-rich social enterprise in Newfoundland\
 , Canada\, we theorize how leaders move from prescribing meaning and actio
 n to instead creating invitational contexts - intentionally shaped environ
 ments enabling individuals to grapple with complexity and paradox in their
  own time and on their own terms. Through practices such as rhetorical pol
 ysemy\, emotional openness\, and temporal patience\, leaders adopt approac
 hes that enable members to create distinct meaning in their own time. Thes
 e individualized journeys accumulate into an emergent collective capacity 
 for navigating paradox. Taken together\, this model of invitational contex
 ts shifts paradox theory from top-down informing to relational engaging an
 d shifts the role of leaders from framers of meaning to facilitators of in
 terpretive spaces.\n
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LOCATION:Room 301\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001
  rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Organizational Behavior Area / Strategy & Organization Joint Semina
 r: Wendy Smith 
URL:/desautels/channels/event/organizational-behavior-
 area-strategy-organization-joint-seminar-wendy-smith-368869
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