Making time:time and management in modern organizations
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
Publication Dates: | 2002. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xvii, 222 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0199253692 0199253706 (pbk.) |
Index Number: | F406 |
CLC: | F406 |
Call Number: | F406/M235 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-217) and index. Choreographing time and management : traditions, developments, and opportunities / Barbara Adam, Richard Whipp, and Ida Sabelis -- Towards a theory of timing : kairology in business networks / Laurids Hedaa and Jan-Åke Törnroos -- Taking time seriously : organizational change, flexibility, and the present time in a new perspective / Christian Noss -- Now's the time? Consumption and time-space disruptions in postmodern virtual worlds / Pamela Odih and David Knights -- Time and management as a morality tale, or 'what's wrong with linear time, damn it?' / Alf Rehn -- Hidden causes for unknown losses : time compression in management / Ida Sabelis -- Cooperation engineered : efficiency in the 'just-in-time' system / Nishimoto Ikuko -- Hanging on the telephone : temporal flexibility and the accessible worker / Emma Bell and Alan Tuckman -- A new time discipline : managing virtual work environments / Heijin Lee and Jonathan Liebenau -- The use of time by management and consumers : an analysis of the computer industry / Paul Sergius Koku -- Contested presents : critical perspectives on 'real-time' management / Ronald E. Purser -- The rhythm of the organization : simultaneity, identity, and discipline in an Australian coastal hotel / Dirk Bunzel -- Interpretative times : the timescape of managerial decision making / Tom Keenoy ... [et al.]. |