Organization as Time: Power and Emancipation in the Happening of Management

François-Xavier De Vaujany, Robin Holt, Albane Grandazzi

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Abstract

As Virginia Woolf put it, clocks are machines that strike time. To strike is to hit, but also to found or yield, and in periodically referring to the bell Big Ben marking the hours in her novel Mrs Dalloway, Woolf attends to this intimacy between organization, sound and time passing. As the quarter hours are struck the civic, commercial, ritual and domestic rhythms of London unfold with a distinct yet mutually accommodating order.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOrganization as Time : Technology, Power and Politics
EditorsFrançois-Xavier de Vaujany, Robin Holt, Albane Grandazzi
Number of pages10
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date2023
Pages1-10
ISBN (Print)9781009297257
ISBN (Electronic)9781009297288
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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