Provided by Blagoy Blagoev, Technical University Dresden
Guiding questions: In what ways does organizing in times of crisis depend on temporal work and what does a temporal lens reveal about wars as “timing contests”?
Lecture
Core readings
Hom, A. R. (2018). Timing is everything: Toward a better understanding of time and international politics. International Studies Quarterly, 62(1), 69–79. PDF
Schmitt, O. (2020). Wartime paradigms and the future of Western military power. International Affairs, 96(2), 401–418. PDF
Contemporary news articles
Rose, G. (2022). The irony of Ukraine. Foreign Affairs, March 29.
Vock, I. (2022). Putin escalates the war on Ukraine as blitzkrieg calculations fail. New Statesman, February 28.
Klein, A. (2022). Multiple battlefields in time and space. Brookings, April 29th.
Post-lecture assignment
How could you explain the failure of Putin’s ”blitzkrieg” in Ukraine from the perspective of war as a “timing contest”? In your response, think especially about what you have learned about temporal uncoupling, continuity patterning, and time horizons and how these could help you understand how Ukraine managed to “slow down” the pace of the war. Support your argument with specific examples.
Background readings
Feldman, M. S., Worline, M., Baker, N., & Lowerson Bredow, V. (2022). Continuity as patterning: A process perspective on continuity. Strategic Organization, 20(1), 80–109. PDF
Kunisch, S., Blagoev, B., & Bartunek, J. M. (2021). Complex times, complex time: The pandemic, time-based theorizing and temporal research in management and organization studies. Journal of Management Studies, 58(5), 1411–1415. PDF
Geiger, D., Danner-Schröder, A., & Kremser, W. (2021). Getting ahead of time—Performing temporal boundaries to coordinate routines under temporal uncertainty. Administrative Science Quarterly, 66(1), 220–264. PDF
Bansal, P. (Tima), Reinecke, J., Suddaby, R., & Langley, A. (2022). Temporal work: The Strategic Organization of Time. Strategic Organization, 20(1), 6–19. PDF
Organizing in Times of Crisis 