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Book SynopsisBreaking new ground in research on temporary organizations, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations brings together papers that examine how temporary organizations navigate the tensions and deal with the paradoxes that are the consequences of temporal limitation.
This volume explores diverse forms of temporary organizations including: animation festivals, cultural celebrations, unconferences, start-up accelerators, humanitarian emergency response, strategic initiatives, projects and megaprojects, project portfolios and networks of projects. This volume uses 3 key questions to unify this empirical diversity:
1. The pace and rhythm of temporary organizing: how do conflicting temporal norms shape work and life in temporary organizations?
2. What are the tactics and practices that temporary organizations develop when dealing with the tensions and paradoxes they confront?
3. When relying for resources and working on behalf of permanent organizations, how do temporary organizations deal with the tensions between attachment to, and detachment from, permanent organizations.
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Tensions and paradoxes in temporary organizing: Mapping the field; By
Timo Braun, Joseph LampelPART I. Temporary Organizing: Events Chapter 1. The Belonging Paradox and Identities in Festivals; By
Robert DeFillippi, Yesim Tonga Uriarte Chapter 2. The Temporal-Enduring Paradox: The Case of Umeå Capital of Culture 2014; By
Stewart Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Medhanie Gaim, Nils Wåhlin Chapter 3. By the people, for the people: Emergence and Spread of the ‘Unconference’ as New Temporary Organizational Form; By
Joseph Lampel , Aneesh Banerjee, Ajay Bhalla PART II. Temporary Organizing: Projects Chapter 4. Acting in time: Temporal work enacting tensions at the interface between temporary and permanent organizations; By
Joana Geraldi, Iben Stjerne, Josef Oehmen Chapter 5. Temporary Organizing and Acceleration: On the Plurality of Temporal Structures in Accelerators; By
Lorenzo Skade, Sarah Stanske, Matthias Wenzel, Jochen Koch Chapter 6. Whose Time is it? Temporary Organizing Under Temporal Institutional Complexity; By
Sofia Pemsel, Jonas Söderlund PART III. Temporary Organizing: Networks Chapter 7. Adaptive Responses to Performance Gaps in Project Networks; By
Federica Angeli, Jörg Raab, Leon Oerlemans Chapter 8. Temporal Co-Dependence between Temporary and Permanent Organizing: Tackling Grand Challenges in the Case of the Refugee Crisis in Germany; By
Anja Danner-Schröder, Gordon Müller-Seitz Chapter 9. Tensions in Portfolios of Temporary Organizations: How Project Portfolio Maturity Attenuates the Negative Effects of Portfolio Ambidexterity; By
René Abel, Suleika Bort, Indre Maurer, Clarissa E. Weber, Hendrik Wilhelm
