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Making Time
Time and Management in Modern Organizations
Edited by Richard Whipp, Barbara Adam, and Ida Sabelis
244 pages
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7 figures; 2 tables; 5 boxes
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925370-8
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Paperback
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04 July 2002
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- Exposes the temporal assumptions that underpin management thought and action
- Variety of specialist perspectives including strategic management, organization theory, decision making, industrial relations, marketing, etc.
- Unites a team of scholars from the US, Japan, and Europe
Time is an essential feature of social and organizational life and part of the deep structure of business activity. Plans, performance, productivity, and pay are all linked to and often measured by time.
Yet time is often taken for granted in daily life and the business world. The aim of this book is to bring time into sharper focus and in particular to look at the way time is constructed, made, managed, and used in organizations. The book both provides an overview of some of the key concepts in time — time's arrow, time's cycle, clock time, etc. — and it explores how particular features of the modern world — global time, futures,
etc. — extend and change the temporal dimension of organizational activity.
Making Time emphasizes the richness of the temporal relations within organizations and the wealth of competing attempts to order and control time in the act of managing. It describes and explains this temporal complexity as it occurs in management, giving full recognition to the way that people create their own sense of time alongside the official temporal apparatus of the clock and diary. The contributors use a variety of management perspectives — strategy, organization theory, decision making, industrial relations, and marketing — and deliberately place the experience of more traditional industrial settings alongside those at the forefront of the
'new economy'.
Making Time seeks to spark a debate across the field of management that does justice to the richness of the temporal features of contemporary organizations. The book will be vital reading for those who want to understand the complexities of time in organizations and the modern world, and the challenges it presents for the theoretical and practical spheres of management.Readership: Academics and graduate students in management and from across the social sciences.
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Edited by Richard Whipp, Cardiff Business School; Chair of the British Academy of Management, Barbara Adam, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and Ida Sabelis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Contributors:
Barbara Adam (Cardiff University)
Peter Anthony (King's College, University of London)
Emma Bell (Warwick Business School)
Dirk Bunzel (Keele University)
David Grant (University of Sydney)
Laurids Hedaa (Copenhagen Business School)
Tom Keenoy (King's College, University of London)
David Knights (Keele
University)
Paul Sergius Koku (Florida Atlantic University)
Heejin Lee (Brunel University)
Jonathan Liebenau (LSE)
Iain Mangham (King's College, University of London)
Gabriele Morello (Palermo University; Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Nishimoto Ikuko (Saitama University)
Christian Noss (Freie Universität Berlin)
Pamela Odih (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
Cliff Oswick (King's College, University of London)
Ronald E. Purser (San Francisco State University)
Alf Rehn (Royal Institute of Technology/Dept. of Industrial Economics and Management, Stockholm)
Ida Sabelis (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Jan-Åke Törnroos (Åbo Akademi University,
Finland)
Alan Tuckman (Nottingham Business School)
Richard Whipp (Cardiff Business School)
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"This book is a welcome sign of continued growth and vitality in the study of time ... reading this book will be an eye-opening experience for those in management who cling to traditional assumptions concerning temporality." - KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time "... original and provocative." - Work, employment and society
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1: Barbara Adam, Richard Whipp, and Ida Sabelis: Choreographing Time and Management: Traditions, Developments, and Opportunities
Part I: Masking Time, Making Time: Rethinking Basic Assumptions
2: Laurids Hedaa and Jan-Åke Törnroos: Towards a Theory of Timing: Kairology in Business Networks
3: Christian Noss: Taking Time Seriously: Organizational Change, Flexibility, and the Present Time in a New Perspective
4: David Knights and Pamela Odih: Now's the Time! Consumption and Time (Space) Disruptions in Postmodern Virtual Worlds
5: Alf Rehn: Good Times and Bad Times: The Moral Discourse of Time and Management
Part II: Temporal Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World
6: Ida Sabelis: Hidden Causes for Unknown Losses: Time Compression in Management
7: Nishimoto Ikuko: Cooperation Engineered: Efficiency in a Complex Division of Labour of the 'Just-in-Time' System
8: Emma Bell and Alan Tuckman: Hanging on the Telephone: Temporal Flexibility and the Accessible Worker
9: Heijin Lee and Jonathan Liebenau: A New Time Discipline: Managing Virtual Work Environments
10: Paul Sergius Koku: The Simultaneous Use of Time by Management and Consumers in Launching and Buying a New Product: An Empirical Analysis of the Computer Industry
Part III: The Temporal Implications of Alternative Approaches to Management
11: Ronald E. Purser: Contested Presents: Critical Perspectives on 'Real Time' Management
12: Dirk Bunzel: The Rhythm of the Organization: Simultaneity, Identity, and Discipline in an Australian Coastal Hotel
13: Tom Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Peter Anthony, David Grant, and Iain Mangham: Interpretative Times: The Timescapes of Managerial Decision Making
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