Making Time

Time and Management in Modern Organizations

Edited by Richard Whipp, Barbara Adam, and Ida Sabelis

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

Making Time

Time and Management in Modern Organizations

Edited by Richard Whipp, Barbara Adam, and Ida Sabelis

Description

The essence of time is a common feature in the world of business, yet at the same time is all too often taken for granted. This volume provides a complete overview of some of the key concepts of time and also describes the complexities involved when considering the type of organization as well as its level of globalization. This book will be essential reading for those who want to understand the dynamics of time in organizations and the entire business economy.

Making Time

Time and Management in Modern Organizations

Edited by Richard Whipp, Barbara Adam, and Ida Sabelis

1. Choreographing Time and Management: Traditions, Developments, and Opportunities, Barbara Adam, Richard Whipp, and Ida Sabelis
Part I: Masking Time, Making Time: Rethinking Basic Assumptions
2. Towards a Theory of Timing: Kairology in Business Networks, Laurids Hedaa and Jan-Åke Törnroos
3. Taking Time Seriously: Organizational Change, Flexibility, and the Present Time in a New Perspective, Christian Noss
4. Now's the Time! Consumption and Time (Space) Disruptions in Postmodern Virtual Worlds, Pamela Odih and David Knights
5. Time and Management as a Morality Tale, or `What's Wrong with Linear Time, Damn It?', Alf Rehn
Part II: Temporal Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World
6. Hidden Causes for Unknown Losses: Time Compression in Management, Ida Sabelis
7. Cooperation Engineered: Efficiency in the 'Just-in-Time' System, Nishimoto Ikuko
8. Hanging on the Telephone: Temporal Flexibility and the Accessible Worker, Emma Bell and Alan Tuckman
9. A New Time Discipline: Managing Virtual Work Environments, Heijin Lee and Jonathan Liebenau
10. The Use of Time by Management and Consumers: An Analysis of the Computer Industry, Paul Sergius Koku
Part III: The Temporal Implications of Alternative Approaches to Management
11. Contested Presents: Critical Perspectives on 'Real Time' Management, Ronald E. Purser
12. The Rhythm of the Organization: Simultaneity, Identity, and Discipline in an Australian Coastal Hotel, Dirk Bunzel
13. Interpretative Times: The Timescapes of Managerial Decision Making, Tom Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Peter Anthony, David Grant, and Iain Mangham

Making Time

Time and Management in Modern Organizations

Edited by Richard Whipp, Barbara Adam, and Ida Sabelis

Author Information

Richard Whipp is a Professor at Cardiff Business School and is the Chair of the British Academy of Management. He has taught and researched at Warwick Business School and Aston Business School as well as holding visiting positions at the University of Uppsala and the LSE. He has published widely in the areas of innovation and strategic change. Barbara Adam is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. She is the founding editor of the journal Time & Society and has published extensively on the social relations of time. Ida Sabelis is Senior Lecturer of Organisation Anthropology with the research group Culture, Organisation & Management at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Before her current position, she was co-founder and consultant of Kantharos, Institute for the Management of Diversity in Amsterdam. She is review editor for non-English publications of the journal Time & Society.

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)