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The silent politics of temporal work : a case study of a management consultancy project to redesign public health care

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McGivern, Gerry, Dopson, Sue, Ferlie, Ewan, Fischer, Michael, Fitzgerald, Louise, Ledger, Jean and Bennett, Chris (2018) The silent politics of temporal work : a case study of a management consultancy project to redesign public health care. Organization Studies, 39 (8). pp. 1007-1030. doi:10.1177/0170840617708004

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617708004

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Abstract

In this article, we discuss temporal work and temporal politics situated between groups with different temporal orientations, arguing that attention needs to be paid to covert and unarticulated silent politics of temporal work. Drawing on a case study of a management consultancy project to redesign public health care, we explain how unarticulated temporal interests and orientations shape the construction of problems, which, in turn, legitimate tasks and time frames. We also show how task and time frames are temporarily fixed and imposed through boundary objects, and the way these may then be reinterpreted and co-opted to deflect pressure to change. Thus, we argue, unarticulated, covert and political temporal inter- dynamics produce expedient provisional temporal settlements, which resolve conflict in the short-term, while perpetuating it in the longer run.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Public health administration -- Case studies, Health services administration -- Case studies
Journal or Publication Title: Organization Studies
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 0170-8406
Official Date: 1 August 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
1 August 2018Published
14 July 2017Available
26 March 2017Accepted
Volume: 39
Number: 8
Page Range: pp. 1007-1030
DOI: 10.1177/0170840617708004
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Publisher Statement: McGivern, Gerry, Dopson, Sue, Ferlie, Ewan, Fischer, Michael, Fitzgerald, Louise, Ledger, J. and Bennett, C. (2017) The silent politics of temporal work : a case study of a management consultancy project to redesign public health care. Organization Studies, 39 (8). pp. 1007-1030. doi:10.1177/0170840617708004 © The Author(s) 2017
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RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
08/1808/242[NIHR] National Institute for Health Researchhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272

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