Introduction to Time and Discourse

Sabelis, I.H.J.; Keenoy, Tom; Oswick, Cliff; Ybema, Sierk

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“…It is particularly challenging if "conceptual clarity around time and temporality" is missing (Dawson, 2014a, p. 286) and scholars end up using similar temporal concepts and terms for different empirical data and categories, losing the temporal complexity in the process (Ancona et al, 2001b). Often, empirical data can encompass multiple temporalities, but because they are often connected to opposing ontologies, scholars tend to simplify or divide the multiplicity in analytical concepts (Sabelis et al, 2005;Biesenthal et al, 2015). This issue is closely related to the challenge of fixation of temporal phenomena that "a static medium" (Reinecke and Ansari, 2017) such as papers or books demands.…”

Section: Analytical Dimension: Analyzing With Temporal Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An obvious but not easy solution to this challenge is to develop new temporal concepts and language (Hernes et al, 2013, p. 2;Jones et al, 2004;Langley et al, 2013). Sabelis et al (2005), like Dawson and Sykes (2019), call for new analytical concepts that allow sensitivity to multimodal temporal constructs. Also, the intersection of time and space has inspired others to create new analytical words and tools (Halford and Leonard, 2005;V asquez and Cooren, 2013).…”

Section: Analytical Dimension: Analyzing With Temporal Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Solutions we found in the literature relate to becoming reflexive and creating more ethically responsible ways of accounting for temporality, for example, by selecting which temporalities to highlight, to include, and to represent, knowing that this will overshadow or silence other time constructs. For example, Sabelis and colleagues (Sabelis, 2001(Sabelis, , 2007Sabelis et al, 2005) highlight potential solutions by clarifying how we as authors work with temporal discourses. This involves researchers reflecting during data collection and coding to pick up on less visible time constructs (Sabelis, 2007), surprising temporalities (Pors, 2016) or extreme temporalities (Sharma, 2014) that occur during organizing processes.…”

Section: Representational Dimension: Writing With Temporal Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He points to the problem of researchers being entangled with the temporal phenomenon that they study, along with their own temporal orientations, calling for a “temporal awareness” of time constructs and how they are used both in “theory development and in the practice of doing empirical research” (Dawson, 2014a, p. 304). Others insist that “[t]he focus is not merely on more visible phenomena, such as politics and communication in and through time, but also on the implicit temporal modes in which – perhaps unreflectively – we use time and continuously reconstruct our sense of it in our daily busyness.” (Sabelis et al. , 2005, p. 261).…”

Section: Studies Of Temporality In Organizing: the Emerging Debate Ov...mentioning

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Timely methods: a methodological agenda for researching the temporal in organizing

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2022

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PurposeThis paper stimulates methodological debates and advances the research agenda for qualitative research about time and temporality in organizing processes. It develops a framework for studying the temporal in organizing that contributes by: (1) providing an overview to prepare for and navigate various methodological challenges in this regard, (2) offering inspiration for relevant solutions to those challenges and (3) posing timely questions to facilitate temporal reflexivity in scholarly work.Design/methodology/approachBased on a literature review of studies about temporality in organizing processes, the authors develop a framework of well-acknowledged methodological challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes, and pose timely questions with which to develop potential solutions for research about organization and time.FindingsThe framework of this study offers a synthesis of methodological challenges and potential solutions acknowledged in the organization studies literature. It consists of three interrelated dimensions of methodological challenges to studying temporality in organizing processes, namely: empirical, analytical and representational challenges. These manifests in six subcategories: empirical cases, empirical methods, analytical concepts, analytical processes and coding, representing researchers’ temporal embeddedness and representing multiple temporalities.Originality/valueThis paper allows scholars to undertake a more ambitious, collective methodological discussion and sets an agenda for studying the temporal in organizing. The framework developed stimulates researchers’ temporal reflexivity and inspires them to develop solutions to specific methodological challenges that may emerge in their study of the temporal in organizing.

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Section: Analytical Dimension: Analyzing With Temporal Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Analytical Dimension: Analyzing With Temporal Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Representational Dimension: Writing With Temporal Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studies Of Temporality In Organizing: the Emerging Debate Ov...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Timely methods: a methodological agenda for researching the temporal in organizing

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2022

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“…This is because the retooling framework – as we have argued here – does not base the method design on any presumed organizational orders, levels or forms, but follows what is emerging through the relationality of discourse–materiality within and across situated times and spaces. Thus, retooling methods for multimodality can also support an applied challenge to linear time discourse as a fundamental assumption in empirical studies, data analysis and theorizing often debated within CMS of organizational discourse, CCO and process views (Hernes et al , 2013; Langley et al , 2013; Sabelis et al , 2005; Vasquez and Cooren, 2013).…”

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Retooling methods for approaching discourse–materiality relations: a new materialist framework of multimodal sensitivity

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2020

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PurposeWhile recent theoretical discussions around discourse–material relationality have facilitated important conceptual and analytical advancements within the broader field of CMS, less progress has been made methodologically with regard to innovating empirical methods and data modes. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to contribute to strengthening the methodological focus in the literature when grappling with the relationality of discourse–materiality and co-constitution. This includes a method-retooling framework inspired by new materialism.Design/methodology/approachIn this article, the authors engage at the methodological level by developing a method-retooling framework that combines insights from organizational discourse studies and new materialist thinking. This framework enables a retooling of existing methods to become sensitive to multimodality and offers two concrete examples that were developed during fieldwork for a multi-sited and multi-method case study in 2018.FindingsBased on the framework for retooling methods for multimodality, two illustrations are offered. These include retooling interviews by employing multimodal vignettes and retooling observations by using multimodal mappings. They are unfolded and discussed regarding their appropriation of discourse–material relationality.Originality/valueThis paper includes original research and method developments – adding a critical focus on the methodological aspects and potential advancements that are necessary in the wake of the ongoing debates around discourse–materiality across CMS and specifically within studies of organizational discourse and CCO. By suggesting a framework, the authors stimulate methodological explorations and contribute to furthering method developments that are equal to the rich conceptual progress made within the field.

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Special Issue “Emerging Scholars, Developing Perspectives, Promising Processes” Editors' Introduction

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Timely methods: a methodological agenda for researching the temporal in organizing

Timely methods: a methodological agenda for researching the temporal in organizing

Retooling methods for approaching discourse–materiality relations: a new materialist framework of multimodal sensitivity

Special Issue “Emerging Scholars, Developing Perspectives, Promising Processes” Editors' Introduction

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