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Coping with paradoxical demands: the dual position of deans in French business schools

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  • Olivier Guyottot
  • Anne-Sophie Thelisson

    (UR CONFLUENCE : Sciences et Humanités (EA 1598) - UCLy - UCLy (Lyon Catholic University), ESDES - ESDES, Lyon Business School - UCLy - UCLy - UCLy (Lyon Catholic University))

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Recent studies have highlighted the major challenges faced by managers in the higher education sector and shown the contradictory demands which foster paradoxical tensions. Previous works have also underlined some specific tensions and rigidities that business school deans regularly face in their role. Yet, few studies have empirically explored which paradoxical tensions deans face and how they cope with them. Our paper addresses this gap. Using a qualitative study, we explore the simultaneous and interrelated contradictions faced by deans in French business schools and address how they manage the tensions related to these conflictual and complicated situations. Our work reveals five main tensions that deans have to face and two individual categories of responses to these tensions. It underlines two types of cognitive mindsets (paradox mindset and dilemma mindset) adopted by deans to deal with paradoxical tensions and highlights how deans have become academic entrepreneurs with hybrid profiles in a paradoxical system.

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  • Olivier Guyottot & Anne-Sophie Thelisson, 2023. "Coping with paradoxical demands: the dual position of deans in French business schools," Post-Print hal-05149132, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05149132
    DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2023.2265405
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