本文精选了管理学领域国际顶刊《Academy of Management Review》近期发表的论文，提供管理学领域最新的学术动态。

From Time Wrinkling to Time Razing Disruptions: Understanding Temporal Resilience

原刊和作者：

Academy of Management Review Volume 50, Issue 1

Liliana Pérez-Nordtvedt （The University of Texas at Arlington）

David A. Harrison （The University of Texas at Arlington）

Abstract

Under established and known demands for their time, individuals are in general temporal equilibrium. When exogeneous shocks alter those temporal demands, objective and subjective temporal misfit ensues, and individual functioning suffers. We propose a theory that describes the process of temporal resilience—as in, resilience about time, not over time. The theory starts with disruptions of temporal equilibrium and ends with individual functioning trajectories as temporal resilience outcomes. We argue that while the displacement of temporal disruptions (i.e., the dissimilarity in temporal demands pre- and post-disruption) has a negative effect on individual functioning, their duration (i.e., the length of occurrence of the disruption) has a reverse J-shaped one. Then, using displacement and duration, we develop a typology of disruptions as time wrinkling, ripping, reshaping, and razing. Next, we propose that individuals can react to those temporal disruptions via three temporal resilience responses: adjusting, absorbing, or adopting. These three responses differentially and respectively allow the individual to return to either objective, subjective, or both forms of temporal fit. Further, depending on the type of disruption, each temporal resilience response sets the individual onto particular trajectories toward the previous temporal equilibrium or to a new, more optimal one.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2022.0452

Practices of Periodization: Toward a Critical Perspective on Temporal Division in Organizations

原刊和作者：

Academy of Management Review Volume 50, Issue 1

Yasaman Sadeghi （Montpellier Business School）

Gazi Islam （Grenoble Ecole de Management）

Wim Van Lent （IESEG）

Abstract

Periodization, or the division of perceived time, pervades organizational life. While scholars have explored many ways in which actors relate to the past, present, and future for various purposes, periodization as an expression of temporality is often taken for granted. With a fundamental capacity to inform cognition and action, periodization carries high stakes for involved actors and groups, which necessitates addressing this lacuna. Specifically, we investigate the intersubjective instances of periodization that foreground human agency, which lends itself to developing a critical perspective on periodization with emphasis on its relation to power and agency and theorizing its often-covert presence and use in organizational life. Periodization, we contend, centralizes some organizational actors or events while marginalizing others. This insight is amenable to two theoretical contributions. First, we offer a new lens for understanding, theorizing, and leveraging the power of temporality and the temporality of power. Second, we set the stage for examining periodization as an actionable yet often overlooked temporal tool at the disposition of organizational actors. By systematically unearthing and challenging the underlying assumptions of periodization, we invite scholars and practitioners to scrutinize and challenge why and how organizational actors can temporally interpret, frame, and contest the social reality.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2022.0396

From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience

原刊和作者：

Academy of Management Review Volume 50, Issue 1

Tor Hernes （Copenhagen Business School）

Blagoy Blagoev （University of St. Gallen）

Sven Kunisch （Aarhus University）

Majken Schultz （Copenhagen Business School）

Abstract

Resilience research has extensively addressed how organizations cope with disruptive events and their immediate impact. The focus of this research has been on how organizations “bounce back” to a pre-disruption state. However, organizations are also challenged to “bounce forward” toward unprecedented and uncertain futures in the wake of disruptive events without losing sight of their pasts. In this article, we develop a trajectory model of organizational resilience that focuses on how actors project temporal trajectories of responses toward disruptive events, reconstitute the trajectories in immediate response to the event, and reconfigure the trajectories toward the ensuing future. The model addresses the need to distinguish combinations of probability and the impact of disruptive events in organizational resilience research. We develop a typology of disruptive events from ecological research representing a distinct combination of probability and impact, labeled stochastic events, probabilistic transformations, and tipping points. We examine critical transitions in the trajectory model at which organizational resilience may or may not materialize. We conclude by considering the implications for theorizing organizational resilience between organizational levels and between different disruptive events, and for temporal organizational theorizing.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2022.0406

Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity

原刊和作者：

Academy of Management Review Volume 50, Issue 1

Blagoy Blagoev （University of St. Gallen）

Georg Schreyögg （Freie Universität Berlin）

Abstract

Time-based theorizing has recognized the importance of temporal complexity but tends to reduce it to tensions and conflicts among but two static temporal demands. We reconceptualize temporal complexity as a dynamic interplay of multiple—that is, more than two—divergent temporal demands. Based on this reconceptualization, we develop a theory of organizational Eigenzeit, which illuminates how organizations “carve out” a time of their own amid temporal complexity. We propose a process model that explains how organizations navigate distinct constellations of temporal complexity by enacting varying degrees of temporal uncoupling and differentiation. Our model enables us to derive four generic modes of Eigenzeit—entrained, ambitemporal, agile, and pluritemporal—and theorize their characteristics and implications. We argue that grand challenges, such as climate change, require organizations to shift to more advanced modes of Eigenzeit, and detail why such a shift might be difficult to enact. Our paper contributes to time-based theorizing by specifying the distinct nature of temporal complexity and redirecting extant research toward examining different modes of Eigenzeit and their implied dynamics and consequences.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2022.0440

Path Nets: Concurrence and Recurrence in the Dynamics of Organizing

Academy of Management Review Volume 50, Issue 1

Brian T. Pentland （Michigan State University）

Waldemar Kremser （Johannes Kepler University Linz）

Kenneth T. Goh （Singapore Management University）

Abstract

This article proposes a link between temporal structuring and the dynamics of organizing that is manifest in a fabric of concurrent paths that we call a path net. Path nets are shaped by mechanisms of temporal structuring, such as entrainment, planning, agency, and chance. Path nets materialize the effects of temporal structuring “here” and “now” in the comings and goings of actors and resources, thereby setting the stage for doings and sayings of situated practice and shaping the dynamics of organizing. Path nets offer a parsimonious system of picturing the complexity of organizing that is built on a processual ontology of paths and events. Through the lens of the path net, we can picture temporal structuring as a motor for organizing that drives recurrence without assuming stability or change. Comings and goings are readily observable, so path nets open new directions for empirical research on temporality and the dynamics of organizing.

Link: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2022.0412