Making time : time and management in modern organizations

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 an...

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Other Authors Whipp, Richard, Adam, Barbara, Sabelis, Ida, 1954-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects
Time management.
Industrial management.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780191514456
0191514454
0199253692
9780199253692
0199253706
9780199253708
1601195389
9781601195388
1281345822
9781281345820
9786611345822
6611345825
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 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 [and others].

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