Making Time for Time: Extending Theories of Temporality in and across Organizations

The purpose of this symposium is to explore recent advances in the study of time in organizational scholarship. Specifically, this symposium helps answer the call for new research that employs a temporal lens by bringing together four ethnographic studies that consider multiple dimensions of temporality in and across organizations. The ethnographic studies that will be presented in this symposium were conducted across a range of different contexts, including a startup accelerator, U.S. Army mental healthcare, the field of nanotechnology, and an elite consulting firm. By drawing on this new empirical research, and by making connections across contexts, this symposium will: 1) offer insights into the complex ways in which temporality shapes organizational processes and outcomes, and 2) demonstrate how temporality is perceived and constructed in varying ways depending on the particular context. Together, the introductory remarks to the symposium, the four empirical papers, the discussion of these papers, and...