To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox comes to us from the world of set theoretic geometry. If that’s not familiar ...

Parrondo’s Paradox epitomises the counterintuitive phenomenon in which combining two individual losing strategies can yield a winning outcome. This concept, originating from game theory, has ...

Parrondo's paradox applied in cancer therapy: alternating high and low chemotherapy doses may improve long-term effectiveness ...

The study of paradox in strategy and organization studies has grown rapidly over the last 25 years. Paradox, as contradictory yet interrelated opposites that exist simultaneously and persist over time ...

In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up by ...

Wendy Smith, professor of management in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, and Marianne Lewis, dean and professor of management in the University of ...

This paper applies an innovative paradox critique to the role strain impact described as affecting Nigerian women who participate in the formal sector of the economy. It lays a theoretically developed ...