Time and Temporality in Organisations

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.

Provides a broad view of the topics of time and temporality, and their importance in organisational studies Examines how the study of time and temporality has developed over time Explores potential topics for future research

Autorentext

Kätlin Pulk is an Associate Professor at Estonian Business School. After receiving her PhD from Copenhagen Business School, her research focus has stayed on time and temporality issues and their connection to different organisational phenomena like organisational change, innovation, commitment, and continuity.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Objective View of Time and Temporality: Time as a Tool for Organizing .- 3. Subjective Time as Subjectively Perceived Temporal Dimensions of Objective Time .- 4. Temporality Endogenous and Subjective.- 5. Socially Constructed Time and Social Time as a Context.- 6. Events, Time, and Events-based Time.- 7. Some Challenges Related to Time and Temporality.