Titlebook: Metaphor and Dialectic in Managing Diversity; Christina Schwabenland Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limi

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: Centrifugal Dialectics of managing diversity. This chapter is going to concentrate on difference and how it is constructed within organisations and by organisations. In this, and subsequent chapters, I am drawing on Bakhtin’s distinction between the centrifugal and centripetal dynamics that underpin dialectic. In a centr

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: Centripetal Dialecticsg force in which separate ingredients are combined into something new. Centripetal dialectics aim for the resolution of differences, whether by fusion (as in a magnet, where the two elements are indistinguishable from each other) or into a new, hybrid entity.

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? Concluding Thoughtsrns are particularly powerful in shaping our thinking about how we perceive similarity and difference. Thinking, as Lawrence writes, ‘is a defining characteristic of the life and work of the people in an organ­isation’ (Lawrence 2000: 3). Our thoughts drive our actions, even if much of this happens

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: Metaphor as Artthe participants in one group had been given a warm cup of coffee to drink just before starting the experiment while the other group were given a cold drink. Again, the drinkers of the warm cup of coffee formed significantly more positive judgements.

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Christina Schwabenlandommodating the traffic demand, and (ii) acquiring more licensed spectrum bands for the upgraded RANs is difficult and expensive due to the regulation policy. Fortunately, nowadays cellular networks are structured in a multitier architecture, namely, a large number of heterogeneous small cells (such

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viding multimedia services over a mobile wireless network is the quality of service (QoS) support in the presence of changing network connectivity due to user mobility and shared, noisy, highly variable and limited wireless communication links. In this research, we address the problem of providing Q

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Christina Schwabenlandviding multimedia services over a mobile wireless network is the quality of service (QoS) support in the presence of changing network connectivity due to user mobility and shared, noisy, highly variable and limited wireless communication links. In this research, we address the problem of providing Q

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