Organizational Change and Temporal Myopia

Abstract

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; PART I Laying the Foundations: Time and Temporality; 1 Introduction; 2 Understanding Time and Temporality: History, Science, and Philosophy; 3 Understanding Time and Temporality: Psychology, Sociology, and Organization Studies; 4 Institutional Time in the Organization and Control of Work; PART II Organizational Change: Time and Temporality; 5 Episodic Change and Linear Time Sequences in Managing Planned Interventions; 6 Technical, Social, and Material: Assemblages of Changing Times 7 Political Time as an Instrument of Dominance and Power8 Narrative Time and Stories in Making Sense of Change; 9 Process Studies in Organizations: Digging in the Field; 10 Process Studies on Emergent Time in Organizing and Becoming; 11 Processes in the Making: Living Presents and the Multiplicity of Times; 12 Conclusion; Author Index; Subject Index