Organization as time : technology, power and politics /

"The bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and becoming of collective...

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Group Author: Vaujany, François-Xavier de. (Editor); Holt, Robin, 1966- (Editor); Grandazzi, Albane, 1991- (Editor)
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2023.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "The bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and becoming of collective activity, its technologies, its images, keep empowering, dominating or (more rarely) emancipating the fragile and ephemeral subjectivities of our world. The turn to digitality in all aspects of contemporary life has made the organizing power of time more pervasive than ever. How to describe organization as time? How to explore the relationship between becoming, duration, images, events, non-events or historicity and their relationships with power and emancipation? These are the rich and varied challenges seized by this book by a team of leading scholars interested in time and temporality in the context of management and organization"--
Carrier Form: xi, 405 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781009297257
1009297252
9781009297264
1009297260
Index Number: HD69
CLC: C935-02
Call Number: C935-02/O686
Contents: Media temporalities and the technical image / Timothy Barker -- Material temporal work in artistic innovation : how Hilma af Klint powered time / Miriam Feuls, Christina Lüthy and Silviya Svejenova -- In the practice agencement : rhythms, refrains and feminist snaps / Silvia Gherardi -- Metaphysics of tragedy, a non-dispositional view of time / Rémy Conche -- Supersessionism and the politics of time : reforming organisational studies with Gadamer's hermeneutic of trust / Gabriel J. Costello -- Between abandon and inquiry : on the way to emancipatory temporalities in organizing / François-Xavier de Vaujany, Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte and Gazi Islam -- Future work : toward a practice perspective / Matthias Wenzel, Hannes Krämer, Jochen Koch and Andreas Reckwitz -- Towards a crinicultural activism in organization / Damian O'Doherty -- 'Working the time' : time self-management practices of remote workers / Claire Estagnasié -- Temporal structures of telework in public sector organizations / Renata Cherém De Araújo Pereira and André Carlos Busanelli -- Towards a processual understanding of buildings : temporality, materiality, and politics / Jonathan Feddersen, Tor Hernes And Silviya Svejenova -- The temporality of entrepreneurship : how entrepreneurs blend memories and projections in the ongoing present of new venture creations / Christian Garmann Johnsen -- Management as dramatic events : intense decentred organizing (IDO) / François-Xavier de Vaujany and Elen Riot -- Times alla turca e franga : conceptions of time and the materiality of the late-Ottoman clock towers /Deniz Tunçalp -- Temporality and institutional maintenance : the role of reactivation work on material artefacts / Amélie Boutinot, Sylvain Colombero And Hélène Delacour -- A time for justice? : Reflecting on the many facets of time and temporality in justice service provision / Marco Velicogna -- Organizational memory as technology / Mike Zundel, Sam Horner and William