Year
2013
Authors
LORINO Philippe, MOUREY D.
Abstract
This research views organization as an organizing process and focuses on its temporal dimension, in the case of (re)organizing inter-firm cooperation. By viewing organizing processes as inquiries in the pragmatist sense, one can shed light on the experience of time unfolding within the developing interaction. We stress two characteristics of organizing inquiries: 1) they are situated, which is the source of unexpected events and novelty; 2) they are dialogical, and the unpredictable dynamics of dialog also punctuate their temporal course. This framework is used in the participant observation of a strategic project in the French retail industry, aiming at the redesign of supplier-retailer relationships using a category management approach.
LORINO, P. et MOUREY, D. (2013). The Experience of Time in the Inter-Organizing Inquiry: A Present Thickened By Dialog and Situations. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 29(1), pp. 48-62.