Organizational Change and Temporality

Bending the Arrow of Time
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-80122-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development

Organizational Change and Temporality: Bending the Arrow of Time looks to address the important area of time and temporality, especially as it relates to frameworks and studies for explaining change processes in organizations. It commences with a selective history on the science and philosophy of time before examining the place of time in work and employment, and the presence and absence of theorized time in explanations of organizational change. The intention is to bring to the fore concepts and debates that have largely remained hidden, furthering our knowledge and understanding of time and temporality in changing organizations.

The authors provide a more informed theoretical explanation of the temporal dimensions of organizational change. They examine the concepts and debates behind change theories, philosophical positions and scientific concerns on time and material existence, drawing connections that have previously remained unexplored. This book is key reading for researchers within the organizational change world and will further the academic debate of time and temporality in organizations studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dawson, Patrick (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Dawson, Patrick

Sykes, Christopher (University of Wollongong, Australia.)

Sykes, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Laying the Foundations: Time and Temporality

1. Introduction

2. Understanding Time and Temporality: History, Science and Philosophy

3. Understanding Time and Temporality: Psychology, Sociology and Organization Studies

4. Institutional Time in the Organization and Control of Work

Part 2: Organizational Change: Time and Temporality

5. Episodic Change and Linear Time Sequences in Managing Planned Interventions

6. Technical, Social and Material: Assemblages of Changing Times

7. Political Time as an Instrument of Dominance and Power

8. Narrative Time and Stories in Making Sense of Change

9. Process Studies in Organizations: Digging in the Field

10. Process Studies on Emergent Time in Organizing and Becoming

11. Processes in the Making: Living Presents and the Multiplicity of Times

12. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Dawson is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Wollongong University, Australia.

Christopher Sykes is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management Operations and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, Australia.