Taking Time to Integrate Temporal Research

Ancona, Deborah; Okhuysen, Gerardo A.; Perlow, Leslie A.

doi:10.5465/amr.2001.5393887

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“…The field of organization studies has increasingly attended to the role of time in organizational life (Ancona et al 2001;Antonacopoulou and Tsoukas 2002;. Scholars have created a broad range of conceptualizations and typologies of time (Adam 1990;Bakken et al 2013;Mosakowski and Earley 2000), indicating that time is a multifaceted concept.…”

Section: Time In Organizational Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Timing also covers the rhythm, timeliness and synchronization of actions and events, as these concepts concern when events occur and how they are related to each other. When something occurs -its timing -can be indicated by clocks and calendars (clock time) and by relation to meaningful events (event time) (Ancona et al 2001;Bluedorn and Denhardt 1988). The timing of organizational routines, for example, may be triggered by events (e.g.…”

Section: Time In Organizational Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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Time and Organizational Learning: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

Berends

Antonacopoulou

2013

Int J Management Reviews

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This paper examines the time dimensions of organizational learning. While several recent studies have addressed aspects of time in relation to organizational learning, the topic of time has received little attention in reviews of the field, and this promising domain of research is fragmented. The objective of this paper is to bring these dispersed conceptualizations and findings together and to provide a more solid conceptual foundation for the time dimensions of organizational learning as a new research avenue. Three sets of mechanisms are discerned: concerning time as duration; the timing of organizational learning; and the role of the past, present and future in organizational learning. Each of these perspectives offers unique insights, which when integrated can help map new directions for future research.

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Section: Time In Organizational Lifementioning

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Section: Time In Organizational Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Organizational Learning: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

Berends

Antonacopoulou

2013

Int J Management Reviews

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“…One way is to test different time-lagged effects of diversity change on team performance change. The number of team performance episodes to choose is researchers' discretionary choice and depends on team types, as discussed above (Ancona et al, 2001;Hollenbeck et al, 2012;Langley et al, 2013;Marks et al, 2001;Zaheer et al, 1999).…”

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“…This includes, for example, top management teams that typically operate for at least 10 years and whose performance is evaluated annually in firm performance (Hollenbeck et al, 2012). Overall, the exact number of performance episodes required for testing DTDT is eventually researchers' judgment call, based on their knowledge of the team (Ancona, Okhuysen, & Perlow, 2001;Zaheer, Albert, & Zaheer, 1999). For example, for top management teams, 1 year might be suitable for testing the contemporaneous effect and 3 years for testing the lasting impact (e.g., Welbourne, Cycyota, & Ferrante, 2007).…”

Section: Team Typesmentioning

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From being diverse to becoming diverse: A dynamic team diversity theory

Meyer

Shemla

et al. 2018

J Organ Behavior

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Summary On the basis of the literature of open systems and team diversity, we present a new dynamic team diversity theory that explains the effect of change in team diversity on team functioning and performance in the context of dynamic team composition. Building upon the conceptualization of teams as open systems, we describe the enlargement and decline of team variety, separation, and disparity through member addition, subtraction, and substitution. Then, focusing on diversity enlargement, we theorize the contemporaneous and lasting effects of team diversity change on team performance change and on team processes and states leading to them. Dynamic team diversity theory expands the focus of team diversity research from teams' being more diverse than others to teams' becoming more diverse than before. It aims to advance team diversity research to be better aligned with the organizational reality of dynamic team composition. We also discuss methodological considerations in subsequent empirical testing of the theory and highlight how the theory and future research may help to guide organizational practice in recomposing work teams.

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“…This dominant linear view of temporality drawn from conventional representations of clock time (digitally embedded in a range of everyday devices) has been widely criticized (Adam 1990(Adam , 2004Glennie and Thrift 1996;Thrift 2004;Wajcman 2015), with a growing recognition of the need to bring differentiated concepts of time to the fore (see Christensson et al 2014). There is a small but expanding call to move beyond objective time (Allman et al 2014) and time-free research (Hassard 1990b, p. 1) or timeless knowledge (Roe et al 2009) to a more conceptually informed theorization in which concepts of time are made more explicit and openly discussed (Ancona et al 2001b;Bluedorn 2002;Dawson and Sykes 2016;Goodman et al 2001). In contributing to this call, we review the use of temporal perspectives in mainstream explanations and critically evaluate the place of time in the development of theoretical frames for understanding storytelling and sensemaking.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Concepts of Time and Temporality in the Storytelling and Sensemaking Literatures: A Review and Critique

Dawson

Sykes

2018

Int J Management Reviews

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A considerable body of literature exists on narratives and stories in explaining how individuals and groups make and give sense to their experiences in organizations. Classic Aristotelian narratives with a linear time structure (stories with a beginning, middle and end) are prominent in the storytelling literature, whereas retrospection, in drawing on the past in making sense of the present, is a temporal modality central to foundational concepts of sensemaking. In examining time and temporality in these related fields, the authors show how the conventional temporal sequence of a past, present and future dominates, with little consideration being given to time as a multiple rather than singular concept. The authors compare and contrast differences in the temporal aspects of mainstream theories and identify a growing interest in philosophical concepts of time. This review highlights how conventional explanations in these related fields of study are underpinned by linear conceptions of temporality (with an associated causality) and how there is growing recognition of fluidity in the way pasts and futures come together in temporal sensemaking of an emergent present. Although this movement towards explanations that engage with non‐linear modalities deepen insight, they do not explicitly address concepts of time. Time continues to receive scant attention, with temporal but ‘timeless’ theories taking precedence, ultimately constraining theoretical development. In building on this analysis, the authors characterize a range of temporal modalities from which they identify six pathways for charting out an agenda for future research in which multiple concepts of time and temporality are brought to the fore.

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Taking Time to Integrate Temporal Research

Cited by 467 publications

References 14 publications

Time and Organizational Learning: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

Time and Organizational Learning: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

From being diverse to becoming diverse: A dynamic team diversity theory

Concepts of Time and Temporality in the Storytelling and Sensemaking Literatures: A Review and Critique

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