Reinecke, Juliane and Ansari, S. (2015) When times collide : temporal brokerage at the intersection of markets and development. Academy of Management Journal, Volume 58 (Number 2). pp. 618-648. doi:10.5465/amj.2012.1004 ISSN 0001-4273.

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Abstract

We study the influence of a pervasive Western organizational mentality - clock-time orientation - in market-based models for human development. While a linear, clock-time orientation optimized for markets is meant to enhance efficiency, coordination and control, it may be unsuitable for managing emergent, complex and indeterminate processes such as development. To examine how the tension between market and development temporalities plays out at the organizational level, we draw on an ethnography of Fairtrade International, an organization connecting markets in the North with low income community development in the South. We examine intra-organizational contestation over different temporal structures needed to entrain to discrepant temporal environments. We explain how contestation, temporal reflexivity, interpretive shifts and mutual appreciation of interdependencies led to the reconstitution of Fairtrade's development model to bridge competing temporal structures. We contribute by 1) elucidating an agentic view of time, where time is used as a cultural resource to regulate attention and render social phenomena amenable to particular types of managerial action; 2) developing the notion of "ambitemporality," where organizations accommodate seemingly contradictory temporal orientations and 3) explaining how deep seated Western organizational mentalities truncate the power of development models and how these models may benefit from embracing processual approaches, associated with Eastern thought.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	Academy of Management Journal
Publisher:	Academy of Management
ISSN:	0001-4273
Official Date:	April 2015
Dates:	Date Event April 2015 Published 20 October 2014 Available 17 October 2014 Accepted 30 October 2012 Submitted
Volume:	Volume 58
Number:	Number 2
Page Range:	pp. 618-648
DOI:	10.5465/amj.2012.1004
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	28 December 2015
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