Making time:time and management in modern organizations

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Whipp Richard.; Adam Barbara; Sabelis Ida, 1954-
Published: Oxford University Press,
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.].