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Organization and Time - Hardcover

Organization and Time - Hardcover

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by Tor Hernes (Author)

Observed through a temporal lens, organizational life fluctuates among moments of instantaneity, enduring continuity, and imagination of distant times. This movement stems from the fact that actors are continually faced with multiple intersecting temporalities, obliging them to make choices about what to do in the present, how to understand the past they emerge from, and how to stake out a possible future. Although scholars have widely recognized actors' multitemporal reality, it remains to be more fully theorized into an integrative framework. In this book, Tor Hernes takes up this challenge by combining foundational ideas from philosophy, sociology, and organization theory into an integrative theoretical framework of organizational time. Based on a review of the literature, his definition of time includes four dimensions: experience, events, resource, and practice. He provides examples of how these four dimensions evolve through mutual interplay and how they are underpinned by
what he calls narrative trajectory. He then discusses implications for key topics in organizational research, including materiality, leadership and continuity and change. Organization and Time is for scholars and advanced students of organization studies, management studies, technology studies, and sociology.

Author Biography


Tor Hernes, Professor of Organization Theory, Copenhagen Business School

Tor Hernes, Professor of Organization Theory at Copenhagen Business School and Adjunct Professor at USN Business School, University of South-Eastern Norway, is an award-winning researcher who has previously published pioneering works on the topics of organization, process, and time. He directs the
Centre for Organization and Time at Copenhagen Business School.
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: June 24, 2022
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