Carr, Adrian N. and Hancock, Philip (2006) Space and time in organizational change management. JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT, 19 (5). pp. 545-557. ISSN 0953-4814

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Abstract

Purpose - The paper aims to introduce the manner in which management and organization theory have viewed space and time as significant resources and to put forward a number of more contemporary views as to how space and time is both managed and experienced. Design/methodology/approach - The paper adopts a postmodern approach in assembling what it regards as "fragments" from a variety of disciplinary discourses on space and time. Each fragment presents, putatively, a different voice, theme or motif which are intended to help the reader better understand the trajectories contained in the other papers in the volume. Findings - The paper finds that conceptions of space and time are fundamental to the manner in which organizations are managed and organized and are a symbolic order inter-related to themes of power and control. The manner in which we experience space and time is open to manipulation and specifically a form compression that displaces critical reflection and may make individual sprone to external locus of control. The manner in which time and space are linked to the suppression of human agency and the imperatives of capitalism cannot be overestimated and require reflexive consideration. Originality/value - The paper, and the volume as a whole, recognises time and space as social constructions and thus open to "reconstruction". Space and time are not simple a priori categories that are fixed, immutable absolutes and knowable entities. The recognition of the intersubjective "nature" of space and time is shown to help us better appreciate the different manner in which space and time is experienced and the manner in which space and time are used in the management of change.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Journal or Publication Title:	JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Publisher:	EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED
ISSN:	0953-4814
Date:	2006
Volume:	19
Number:	5
Number of Pages:	13
Page Range:	pp. 545-557
Identification Number:	10.1108/09534810610686058
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/33027

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