Making Time
Time and Management in Modern Organizations
$393.12
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2002
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199253692 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199253692 |
| Author: | Richard Whipp, Barbara Adam, Ida Sabelis |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 477g |
| Dimensions: | 243mm x 162mm x 19mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
This book is a welcome sign of continued growth and vitality in the study of time … reading this book will be an eye-opening experience for those in management who cling to traditional assumptions concerning temporality. KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time … original and provocative. Work, employment and society
About The Author
Richard Whipp
Richard Whipp is a Professor at Cardiff Business School and is the Chair of the British Academy of Management. He has taught and researched at Warwick Business School and Aston Business School as well as holding visiting positions at the University of Uppsala and the LSE. He has published widely in the areas of innovation and strategic change. Barbara Adam is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. She is the founding editor of the journal Time &Society and has published extensively on the social relations of time. Ida Sabelis is Senior Lecturer of Organisation Anthropology with the research group Culture, Organisation & Management at the VrijeUniversiteit in Amsterdam. Before her current position, she was co-founder and consultant of Kantharos, Institute for the Management of Diversity in Amsterdam. She is review editor for non-English publications of the journal Time & Society.
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