We are delighted at the explosion of research advancing and applying paradox theory in the past 10 years and deeply honored to receive the 2021 Academy of Management Review Decade Award for the publication “Toward a Theory of Paradox: A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Organizing”. In this paper, we reflect on the background story to writing this article and suggest that the success of paradox theory, and this paper, may be due relevance, theoretical inclusivity along with targeted efforts for community building. We assess accumulated scholarship, noting both the convergence of key ideas and definitions, while recognizing the divergence of ontologies, methodologies, theories and phenomena. We integrate expanding insights into a framework that we label as the Paradox System, which highlights the breadth of research, depicts the interwoven and paradoxical relationships across categories, and surfaces a core insight that navigating paradox is paradoxical. Finally, we explore the possibility of paradox emerging as a paradigm in organizational studies.

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对 2021 年十年奖的思考：驾驭悖论是悖论

我们很高兴在过去 10 年中推进和应用悖论理论的研究爆炸式增长，并因出版“走向悖论理论：组织的动态平衡模型”而获得 2021 年管理学院评论十年奖深感荣幸。在本文中，我们反思了撰写本文的背景故事，并认为悖论理论和本文的成功可能是由于相关性、理论包容性以及有针对性的社区建设努力。我们评估积累的学术成果，注意到关键思想和定义的趋同，同时认识到本体论、方法论、理论和现象的分歧。我们将不断扩展的见解整合到我们标记为悖论系统的框架中，该框架突出了研究的广度，描绘了跨类别交织和矛盾的关系，并提出了一个核心见解，即驾驭悖论是矛盾的。最后，我们探讨了悖论作为组织研究范式出现的可能性。