Abstract

1. Choreographing Time and Management: Traditions, Developments, and Opportunities PART I: MASKING TIME, MAKING TIME: RETHINKING BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 2. Towards a Theory of Timing: Kairology in Business Networks 3. Taking Time Seriously: Organizational Change, Flexibility, and the Present Time in a New Perspective 4. Now's the Time! Consumption and Time (Space) Disruptions in Postmodern Virtual Worlds 5. Good Times and Bad Times: The Moral Discourse of Time and Management PART II: TEMPORAL STRATEGIES IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD 6. Hidden Causes for Unknown Losses: Time Compression in Management 7. Cooperation Engineered: Efficiency in a Complex Division of Labour of the 'Just-in-Time' System 8. Hanging on the Telephone: Temporal Flexibility and the Accessible Worker 9. A New Time Discipline: Managing Virtual Work Environments 10. The Simultaneous Use of Time by Management and Consumers in Launching and Buying a New Product: An Empirical Analysis of the Computer Industry PART III: THE TEMPORAL IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT 11. Contested Presents: Critical Perspectives on 'Real Time' Management 12. The Rhythm of the Organization: Simultaneity, Identity, and Discipline in an Australian Coastal Hotel 13. Interpretative Times: The Timescapes of Managerial Decision Making

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