Time and Temporality in Organisations: Theory and Development

✍ Scribed by Kätlin Pulk

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an overview of different approaches to and understandings of time and temporality in organization studies. It explores the development of time and temporality studies within organisation studies, and examines its interdisciplinarity and roots in philosophy. From there, it moves to discuss more recent concerns in the field, including the agency of time and temporal agency of human actors, the temporal orientation of activities, temporal trajectories, sustainability, and an events-based view of time.

It will be useful reading for academics of organisational studies and the philosophy of business.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
About This Book
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
References
2: Objective View of Time and Temporality: Time as a Tool for Organizing
2.1 An Objective View of Time: Standardized Clock Time
2.2 Clock Time in Management and Organization Studies
2.3 Clock Time and Coordination Challenges
2.3.1 Entrainment
2.3.2 Some Considerations Related to Entrainment Theory
2.4 Some Consequences of Clock Time
2.5 Limitations of Clock Time
2.6 Conclusion
References
3: Subjective Time as Subjectively Perceived Temporal Dimensions of Objective Time
3.1 Estimating Duration
3.2 The Difficulty with Predicting the Duration of Time
3.3 The Spatial Metaphor of Time and the Direction of “Flow”
3.3.1 Ego-Centric and Time-Centric Views of Time
3.4 Temporal Orientation, Focus, and Depth
3.5 Wrestling with Time: Time Work and Temporal Agency
3.5.1 Losing Our Temporal Agency
3.5.2 Temporal Agency and Our Relations to the Future and Present
3.6 Conclusion
References
4: Temporality—Endogenous and Subjective
4.1 Subjective Temporality as a Lived Experience
4.1.1 Living Time and Ongoing Temporality
4.1.2 Building the Sensed Continuity in Passing Time
4.1.3 Understanding Our Experiences and Ourselves in Time
4.1.4 Temporal Continuity of and in Organizations
4.2 Temporal Idealism, Endogenous Temporality and the Agency of Passing Time
4.2.1 Endogenous Temporality—Expanding Beyond Temporal Idealism
4.2.2 The Agency of Time
4.2.3 Becoming, the Realization of Possibilities, and Actualization of Potentialities
4.3 The Present and Now
4.4 Futures and Pasts
4.4.1 Issues Related to Memories
4.5 The Immanence of the Past and Future in the Present
4.6 The Temporal Structure of Agency
4.7 Conclusion
References
5: Socially Constructed Time and Social Time as a Context
5.1 Intersubjective Temporality
5.2 Plurality of Social Times and Time Reckoning Systems
5.2.1 Temporal Structures, Temporal Work, and a Collision of Times
5.3 The Temporal Orientation of Activities
5.4 Social Time as a Multi-layered Context
5.4.1 Micro-time and Meso-time
5.4.2 Eso-time
5.4.3 Macro-time
5.4.4 Temporality of Time-as-a-context
5.5 Conclusion
References
6: Events, Time, and Events-Based Time
6.1 Structure, Process, and Events
6.2 Events as Signifiers of Time
6.2.1 Time Reckoning Systems
6.3 Time as a Signifier of an Order of Events
6.3.1 Temporal Bracketing
6.4 Events-Based View of Time
6.4.1 Becoming of Events
6.4.2 Immanence of Events
6.5 Conclusion
References
7: Some Challenges Related to Time and Temporality
References
Index