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Saudade: How complex emotions shape the experience of paradox
Journal Title
Culture and Organization
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Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
Emotions and paradoxes permeate organizational life. The former shape how individuals interpret, respond to, and cope with the tensions that arise from the latter. While paradox theory has extensively explored the handling of these tensions through cognitive and structural mechanisms, the emotional dimensions remain largely underexplored. We discuss saudade, a paradoxical, culturally grounded emotion in Portuguese, an evocative state of being characterized by simultaneous longing for the past and aspiration for the future. Saudade serves a conceptual lens for understanding how paradoxical emotions shape organizational life. Drawing on linguistic relativism, we propose that rather than merely naming a universal experience, inscribing the word saudade in the organizational lexicon serves as a linguistic-emotional tool for connecting past and future and navigating organizational tensions.
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Keywords
Saudade,Paradox theory,Linguistic relativism,Emotional ambidexterity,Emotions,Culture
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Psychology - Social Sciences
- Economics and Business - Social Sciences
- Social and Economic Geography - Social Sciences
- Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music) - Humanities
- Anthropology - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| UID/00124/2025 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| LISBOA2030-FEDER-01314200 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| UID/PRR/124/2025 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
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