Making time: time and management in modern organizations
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2002
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-217) and index
Choreographing time and management : traditions, developments, and opportunities / Barbara Adam, Richard Whipp, and Ida Sabelis -- Towards a theory of timing : kairology in business networks / Laurids Hedaa and Jan-Åke Törnroos -- Taking time seriously : organizational change, flexibility, and the present time in a new perspective / Christian Noss -- Now's the time? Consumption and time-space disruptions in postmodern virtual worlds / Pamela Odih and David Knights -- Time and management as a morality tale, or 'what's wrong with linear time, damn it?' / Alf Rehn -- Hidden causes for unknown losses : time compression in management / Ida Sabelis -- Cooperation engineered : efficiency in the 'just-in-time' system / Nishimoto Ikuko -- Hanging on the telephone : temporal flexibility and the accessible worker / Emma Bell and Alan Tuckman -- A new time discipline : managing virtual work environments / Heijin Lee and Jonathan Liebenau -- The use of time by management and consumers : an analysis of the computer industry / Paul Sergius Koku -- Contested presents : critical perspectives on 'real-time' management / Ronald E. Purser -- The rhythm of the organization : simultaneity, identity, and discipline in an Australian coastal hotel / Dirk Bunzel -- Interpretative times : the timescape of managerial decision making / Tom Keenoy ... [et al.]
Time is often taken for granted in daily life and the business world. The aim of this book is to bring time into sharper focus and in particular to look at the way time is constructed, made, managed, and used in organizations. The book both provides an overview of some of the key concepts in time and it explores how particular features of the modern world extend and change the temporal dimension of organizational activity. - ;Time is an essential feature of social and organizational life and part of the deep structure of business activity. Plans, performance, productivity, and pay are all link
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ISBN:9780191514456
0191514454
0199253692
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