Organization as Time

Vorwort
This volume explores the temporal structures and dynamics at stake in contemporary management and organization in relation to technology, power and politics.

Autorentext
François-Xavier de Vaujany is Professor of Organization Studies at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (DRM). His research deals with the relationship between new ways of organizing work and societal transformations, particularly its time and space dimensions. His latest publications are Apocalypse managériale (Belles Lettres, 2022) and the co-edited Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies (Oxford University Press, 2022). Robin Holt is Professor of Strategy and Aesthetics at the University of Bristol Business School and a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. He studies the nature of organizational form, with a specific interest in the aesthetic process of its creation (entrepreneurship) and shaping (strategy). Robin works at the intersection of management and organization studies, media theory, politics and philosophy.Albane Grandazzi has been Assistant Professor at Grenoble École de Management (GEM) since 2020. Her research is based on an ethnographic and critical approach to organization and management studies. She is interested in the role of the body in new work practices, building on the work of the philosopher Merleau-Ponty to this end. Her last publication, The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies (Oxford University Press, 2022) is related to the role of gestures in this process.

Zusammenfassung
The bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and becoming of collective activity, its technologies, its images, keep empowering, dominating or (more rarely) emancipating the fragile and ephemeral subjectivities of our world. The turn to digitality in all aspects of contemporary life has made the organizing power of time more pervasive than ever. How to describe organization as time? How to explore the relationship between becoming, duration, images, events, non-events or historicity and their relationships with power and emancipation? These are the rich and varied challenges seized by this book by a team of leading scholars interested in time and temporality in the context of management and organization.

Inhalt
Introduction: organization as time: power and emancipation in the happening of management François-Xavier de Vaujany, Robin Holt and Albane Grandazzi; Part I. The Politics of Time: Ontologies and Metaphysics of Organization as Time: 1. Media temporalities and the technical image Timothy Barker; 2. Material temporal work in artistic innovation: how Hilma af Klint powered time Miriam Feuls, Christina Luethy and Silviya Svejenova; 3. In the practice agencement: rhythms, refrains and feminist snaps Silvia Gherardi; 4. Metaphysics of tragedy, a non-dispositional view of time Rémy Conche; Part II. Re-orienting Critique in Organization Studies? Exploring Jointly Time and Politics: 5. Supersessionism and the politics of time: reforming organisational studies with Gadamer's hermeneutics of trust Gabriel J. Costello; 6. Between abandon and inquiry: on the way to emancipatory temporalities in organizing François-Xavier de Vaujany, Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte and Gazi Islam; 7. Future work: toward a practice perspective Matthias Wenzel, Hannes Krämer, Jochen Koch and Andreas Reckwitz; 8. Towards a crinicultural activism in organization Damian O'Doherty; Part III. New Ways of Organizing Work, Digitality and the Politics of Time: 9. Working the time: time self-management practices of remote workers Claire Estagnasié; 10. Temporal structures of telework in public sector organizations Renata Cherém de Araújo Pereira and André Carlos Busanelli de Aquino; 11. Towards a processual understanding of buildings: temporality, materiality, and politics Jonathan Feddersen, Tor Hernes and Silviya Svejenova; 12. The temporality of entrepreneurship: how entrepreneurs blend memories and projections in the ongoing present of new venture creations Christian Garmann Johnsen; 13. Management as dramatic events: intense decentered organizing (IDO) François-Xavier de Vaujany, Elen Riot; Part IV. History and Duration: Making Things Last, Enduring Politics and Organizing: 14. Times Alla Turca E Franga: conceptions of time and the materiality of the late-Ottoman clock towers Deniz Tunçalp; 15. Temporality and institutional maintenance: the role of reactivation work on material artefacts Amélie Boutinot, Sylvain Colombero and Hélène Delacour; 16. A time for justice? Reflecting on the many facets of time and temporality in the justice service provision Marco Velicogna; 17. Organizational memory as technology Mike Zundel, Sam Horner and William M. Foster; Conclusion: time and political organizing: five avenues for further research on the way to power and emancipation François-Xavier de Vaujany, Robin Holt and Albane Grandazzi.