%I British Academy of Management
%L discovery10109968
%A N Sergeeva
%A G Winch
%O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
%X Temporality is at the heart of project organizing, yet it has received surprisingly little theoretical
attention within the research field. Implicitly, most work in the field has taken an objective view of
time which “exists independently of human action: [is] exogenous, absolute” (Orlikowski & Yates,
2002) and project organizing is “time-paced” (Brown & Eisenhardt, 1997). More recently, others
have taken a subjective view of time as “socially constructed by human action; culturally relative”
(ibid), and project organizing is an emergent phenomenon creating a “negotiated order” (Strauss,
1988). Drawing on their own research in project organizing, Orlikowski & Yates (1994) move beyond
these binary views by drawing on practice theory in which time is “constituted by, as well as
constituting, human action” through “temporal structuring” (2002).
%D 2020
%B Proceedings of the British Academy of Management Conference 2020
%T Temporal Structuring in Project Organizing: A Narrative Approach