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Organization as Time

Power and Emancipation in the Happening of Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2023

By
François-Xavier de Vaujany ,
Robin Holt  and
Albane Grandazzi
Edited by
François-Xavier de Vaujany ,
Robin Holt  and
Albane Grandazzi
François-Xavier de Vaujany
Affiliation:
Universite Paris Dauphine-PSL
Robin Holt
Affiliation:
Copenhagen Business School
Albane Grandazzi
Affiliation:
Grenoble Ecole de Management
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Summary

As Virginia Woolf put it, clocks are machines that strike time. To strike is to hit, but also to found or yield, and in periodically referring to the bell Big Ben marking the hours in her novel Mrs Dalloway, Woolf attends to this intimacy between organization, sound and time passing. As the quarter hours are struck the civic, commercial, ritual and domestic rhythms of London unfold with a distinct yet mutually accommodating order.

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Organization as Time
Technology, Power and Politics
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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