TY - JOUR
T1 - The multiple temporalities of changeful organizational practice
AU - Simpson, Barbara
AU - Sillince, John
PY - 2013/1/31
Y1 - 2013/1/31
N2 - The existing literature on organizational practice tends to underplay the influence of changeful agentic actions in strategic processes. Questions about how people exercise agency, and what types of actions might produce various types of result, remain significantly under-examined. Taking a discursive approach informed by Pragmatist thinking, we develop a theoretical argument that integrates managerial talk, agentic action, and temporality, and we extend this empirically by drawing on real-time talk in managers’ meetings. This paper contributes a multi-temporal perspective on organizational practice that weaves together the fleeting actions performed by managers’ talk, emergent sequences of actions, and retrospective reconstructions of the meanings of these actions.
AB - The existing literature on organizational practice tends to underplay the influence of changeful agentic actions in strategic processes. Questions about how people exercise agency, and what types of actions might produce various types of result, remain significantly under-examined. Taking a discursive approach informed by Pragmatist thinking, we develop a theoretical argument that integrates managerial talk, agentic action, and temporality, and we extend this empirically by drawing on real-time talk in managers’ meetings. This paper contributes a multi-temporal perspective on organizational practice that weaves together the fleeting actions performed by managers’ talk, emergent sequences of actions, and retrospective reconstructions of the meanings of these actions.
KW - organizational practice
KW - strategic processes
KW - agency
UR - https://journals.aom.org/
U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2013.50
DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2013.50
M3 - Conference Contribution
SN - 0065-0668
VL - 2013
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
IS - 1
ER -