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Lou Pondy was one of the rare thought leaders in our field who knew how to make a science out of management and organization. His training brought about a unique convergence of Lewin’s line of social scientists with those of the Carnegie School, actively merging in the curious mind of a physicist. This multi-interdisciplinary grounding in social science meant that Pondy took a phenomenological approach to people and organizations, with data on symbolic and objective organizational realities always open to multiple interpretations. Moreover, he knew how to share this perspective on research as a mentor to encourage and nurture a purposeful balanced life.
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Pondy, L. R. (1967). Organizational conflict: Concepts and models. Administrative Science Quarterly, 12(2), 296–320. https://doi.org/10.2307/2391553.
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Hillon, Y.C. (2021). Pondy, Lou: Mentor of My Mentor. In: Szabla, D.B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4_120
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