Making Time: Time and Management in Modern Organizations

Time is often taken for granted in daily life and the business world. The aim of this book is to bring time into sharper focus and in particular to look at the way time is constructed, made, managed, and used in organizations. The book both provides an overview of some of the key concepts in time and it explores how particular features of the modern world extend and change the temporal dimension of organizational activity.

Review:

This book is a welcome sign of continued growth and vitality in the study of time ... reading this book will be an eye-opening experience for those in management who cling to traditional assumptions concerning temporality. KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time ... original and provocative. Work, employment and society