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Objective View of Time and Temporality: Time as a Tool for Organizing

In: Time and Temporality in Organisations

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  • Kätlin Pulk

    (Estonian Business School)

Abstract

This chapter focuses on clock time and its role in organizing social life and organizational life. Clock time, rooted in Newtonian physics, stands for temporal realism. From a temporal realist perspective, time is viewed as real, objective, and measurable, while temporality concerns such objective features of time as tempo, speed, duration, frequency, acceleration, timing, and so on. In this chapter, I give a short overview of the emergence of global standardized clock time and its merits as a tool for organizing. I will continue with some of the less positive aspects of the relationship between clock time and the views of reality. I will discuss the importance of clock time in organizations emphasizing its role in coordinating, synchronizing, and entraining activities with different temporal cycles. I discuss some of the potential negative aspects of an unbalanced emphasis on clock time, such as speed, time compression or intensification, and chronocentrism. Finally, I underline some limitations of clock time that may arise if applied in social life.

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  • Kätlin Pulk, 2022. "Objective View of Time and Temporality: Time as a Tool for Organizing," Springer Books, in: Time and Temporality in Organisations, chapter 2, pages 17-65, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-90696-2_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90696-2_2
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    1. Wendelin Kuepers & David M. Wasieleski & Gunter Schumacher, 2023. "Temporality and Ethics: Timeliness of Ethical Perspectives on Temporality in Times of Crisis," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 188(4), pages 629-643, December.

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