Temporary organizing and acceleration: On the plurality of temporal structures in accelerators
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Tensions and paradoxes in temporary organizing . Hrsg. / Timo Braun; Joseph Lampel. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020. S. 105 - 125 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Band 67).
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T1 - Temporary organizing and acceleration
T2 - On the plurality of temporal structures in accelerators
AU - Skade, Lorenzo
AU - Stanske, Sarah
AU - Wenzel, Matthias
AU - Koch, Jochen
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 by Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2020/9/17
Y1 - 2020/9/17
N2 - ‘Acceleration’, that is, the performance of activities in ever-shorter periods of time, is a distinctive feature of contemporary organizations and societies that is reflected in, and driven by startups’ attempts to scale up their businesses in ever-faster ways. Although prior research has highlighted that temporary organizing is a key way to accelerate the startup process, little is known about how actors do so. Based on a one-year ethnographic study at a startup accelerator, the authors explore how actors enact temporary organizing to attempt to accelerate the startup process. Their analysis shows that this process involves a plurality of partly conflicting temporal structures. As their study shows, such conflicts invoke tensions that actors live out in their daily activities. The authors identify three temporal practices – sequencing, freezing, and merging – through which actors engaged in temporary organizing enact acceleration in the startup process by reconciling these temporal structures. Their study has implications for understanding time in the expanding literature on temporary organizing and acceleration.
AB - ‘Acceleration’, that is, the performance of activities in ever-shorter periods of time, is a distinctive feature of contemporary organizations and societies that is reflected in, and driven by startups’ attempts to scale up their businesses in ever-faster ways. Although prior research has highlighted that temporary organizing is a key way to accelerate the startup process, little is known about how actors do so. Based on a one-year ethnographic study at a startup accelerator, the authors explore how actors enact temporary organizing to attempt to accelerate the startup process. Their analysis shows that this process involves a plurality of partly conflicting temporal structures. As their study shows, such conflicts invoke tensions that actors live out in their daily activities. The authors identify three temporal practices – sequencing, freezing, and merging – through which actors engaged in temporary organizing enact acceleration in the startup process by reconciling these temporal structures. Their study has implications for understanding time in the expanding literature on temporary organizing and acceleration.
KW - Management studies
KW - temporary organizing
KW - acceleration
KW - tensions
KW - temporal practices
KW - ethnography
KW - Accelerators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132714000&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/7716d9b3-67af-329f-bc94-f2ad779fa359/
U2 - 10.1108/S0733-558X20200000067011
DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20200000067011
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-83909-349-4
T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
SP - 105
EP - 125
BT - Tensions and paradoxes in temporary organizing
A2 - Braun, Timo
A2 - Lampel, Joseph
PB - Emerald Publishing Limited
ER -