Organization as Time: Technology, Power and Politics

The  bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as  organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a  locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of  organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and  becoming of collective activity, its technologies, its images, keep  empowering, dominating or (more rarely) emancipating the fragile and  ephemeral subjectivities of our world. The turn to digitality in all  aspects of contemporary life has made the organizing power of time more  pervasive than ever. How to describe organization as time? How to  explore the relationship between becoming, duration, images, events,  non-events or historicity and their relationships with power and  emancipation? These are the rich and varied challenges seized by this  book by a team of leading scholars interested in time and temporality in  the context of management and organization.