Management von Komplexität, Spannungen & Paradoxien als Faktor nachhaltiges Unternehmenswachstum

The current sociopolitical situation leads to tremendous turbulences and insecurity with regard to future developments that are constantly shaking our companies and pose serious challenges on them. However dealing with complexity, ambiguity and tensions in times of disruptive change is especially important for companies’ sustainable growth and to stay competitive in the long run. A paradox perspective addresses the question as to how to tackle tensions and conflicts as consequences of complexity and ambiguity. Even though conceptual as well as empirical studies argue that organizational sustainability and long-term success root in em-bracing paradox instead of simply responding to them, questions as to how in detail to meet these challenges are still open to answer. This is the starting point to our research proposal. By conducting qualitative case-study research we aim to answer the question as to how com-panies and their managers meet complexity, tensions and paradox pro-actively in order to induce sustainable growth even if confronted with volatile environments in times of disruptive change. Our results will be relevant for both theory and practice.