Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies

by Reinecke, Juliane; Suddaby, Roy; Langley, Ann; Tsoukas, Haridimos

• ISBN13: 9780198870715
• ISBN10: 019887071X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192643728
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-03-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Juliane Reinecke, Professor of International Management and Sustainability, King's College London,Roy Suddaby, Winspear Chair of Management, University of Victoria,Ann Langley, Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings, HEC Montr?al,Haridimos Tsoukas, Columbia Ship Management Chair in Strategic Management, University of Cyprus

Juliane Reinecke is Professor of International Management and Sustainability at King's Business School, King's College London. She is a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Research Fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, from where she received her PhD. Her research interests include process perspectives on global governance, sustainability, practice adaptation and temporality in organizations and in global value chains.

Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Chair of Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business in Victoria, Canada, and a Chair in Organisation Theory at the Management School of University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. His research focuses on the critical role of symbolic resources -- legitimacy, authenticity, identity, and history -- in improving an organization's competitive position. His current research examines the changing social and symbolic role of the modern corporation.


Ann Langley is Professor of Management at HEC Montr?al, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings. Her research focuses on strategic change, leadership, innovation and the use of management tools in complex organizations with an emphasis on processual research approaches.

Haridimos Tsoukas holds the Columbia Ship Management Chair in Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus and is a Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include: knowledge-based perspectives on organizations; organizational becoming; the management of organizational change and social reforms; the epistemology of practice; and epistemological issues in organization theory.

Table of Contents

1. Time, Temporality and History in Process Organization Studies, Juliane Reinecke, Roy Suddaby, Ann Langley, and Haridimos Tsoukas
2. Temporality, Aspect, and Narrative: A Heideggerian Approach, William Blattner
3. Events and the Becoming of Organizational Temporality, Tor Hernes
4. The Sociology of Time, Eviatar Zerubavel
5. Studying Organization From the Perspective of the Ontology of Temporality: Introducing the Events-Based Approach, Anthony Hussenot, Tor Hernes, and Isabelle Bouty
6. The Timefulness of Creativity in an Accelerating World, Barbara Simpson, Rory Tracey, and Alia Weston
7. Flowline at Work: Transforming Temporalities in News Organizations Through Metaphor, Arne Lindseth Bygd?s, Aina Landsverk Hagen, Ingrid M. Tolstad, and Gudrun Rudningen Skj?laaen
8. Temporal Shaping of Routine Patterning, Lena E. Bygballe, Anna R. Sw?rd, Anne Live Vaagaasar
9. Capturing the Experience of Living Forward from Within the Flow: Fusing "Withness" Approach & Pragmatist Inquiry, Frithjof E. Wegener and Philippe Lorino
10. Organizational Time in Historical Perspective, John Hassard, Stephanie Decker, and Michael Rowlinson
11. Historical Consciousness as a Management Tool, N?meth Bongers Diane Ella
12. Appropriating the Past in Organizational Change Management: Abandoning and Embracing History, Henrik Koll and Astrid Jensen
13. Memory-Work: Corporate Archivists and Long-Term Remembering in Organizations, William M. Foster, Elden M. Wiebe, Diego M. Coraiola, Fran?ois Bastien, and Roy Suddaby
14. Rhetorical History, Historical Metanarratives, and Rhetorical Effectiveness, Andrew David Allan Smith
15. The Life and Work of Edith Penrose: Appreciating the Classics in Temporal and Historical Perspective, David Musson