Organizational Change and Temporality Bending the Arrow of Time

Organizational Change and Temporality: Bending the Arrow of Time looks to address the important area of time and temporality, especially as it relates to frameworks and studies for explaining change processes in organizations. It commences with a selective history on the science and philosophy of time before examining the place of time in work and employment, and the presence and absence of theorized time in explanations of organizational change. The intention is to bring to the fore concepts and debates that have largely remained hidden, furthering our knowledge and understanding of time and temporality in changing organizations. The authors provide a more informed theoretical explanation of the temporal dimensions of organizational change. They examine the concepts and debates behind change theories, philosophical positions and scientific concerns on time and material existence,drawing connections that have previously remainedunexplored. This book is key reading for researchers within the organizational change world and will further the academic debate of time and temporality in organizations studies.

Part 1: 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 2: 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 Power 8. 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

Patrick Dawson is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Wollongong University, Australia. Christopher Sykes is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management Operations and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, Australia.