Language and Communication at Work

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“…, 2019), accounting for the temporal embeddedness of situations (Ancona et al. , 2001b) and perceiving related tensions in detailed analysis longitudinally (following phenomena through time and space) (Cooren et al. , 2014).…”

Section: Methodological Challenges and Solutions For Studying The Tem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, studying the invisible workings of temporality requires reflexivity regarding both the data collected and the practices of various qualitative methods, i.e. moving toward the recordings of activities, conversations and practices (Cooren et al. , 2014) through video, photographs and social media (Vaara et al.…”

Section: Methodological Challenges and Solutions For Studying The Tem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many scholars rely on interviews to reconstruct events or both objective and subjective time in interviewees’ stories, thereby capturing the temporal from one present point of view. However, interviews are limited when it comes to the unfolding of how temporal understandings change over time at different situated moments (Cooren et al. , 2014).…”

Section: Methodological Challenges and Solutions For Studying The Tem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other potential solutions in the literature include video-shadowing (Cooren et al. , 2014) or micro-ethnographies (Howard-Grenville et al.…”

Section: Methodological Challenges and Solutions For Studying The Tem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Timely methods: a methodological agenda for researching the temporal in organizing

Feuls

Plotnikof²,

Stjerne³

2022

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PurposeThis paper stimulates methodological debates and advances the research agenda for qualitative research about time and temporality in organizing processes. It develops a framework for studying the temporal in organizing that contributes by: (1) providing an overview to prepare for and navigate various methodological challenges in this regard, (2) offering inspiration for relevant solutions to those challenges and (3) posing timely questions to facilitate temporal reflexivity in scholarly work.Design/methodology/approachBased on a literature review of studies about temporality in organizing processes, the authors develop a framework of well-acknowledged methodological challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes, and pose timely questions with which to develop potential solutions for research about organization and time.FindingsThe framework of this study offers a synthesis of methodological challenges and potential solutions acknowledged in the organization studies literature. It consists of three interrelated dimensions of methodological challenges to studying temporality in organizing processes, namely: empirical, analytical and representational challenges. These manifests in six subcategories: empirical cases, empirical methods, analytical concepts, analytical processes and coding, representing researchers’ temporal embeddedness and representing multiple temporalities.Originality/valueThis paper allows scholars to undertake a more ambitious, collective methodological discussion and sets an agenda for studying the temporal in organizing. The framework developed stimulates researchers’ temporal reflexivity and inspires them to develop solutions to specific methodological challenges that may emerge in their study of the temporal in organizing.

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Section: Methodological Challenges and Solutions For Studying The Tem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodological Challenges and Solutions For Studying The Tem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodological Challenges and Solutions For Studying The Tem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other potential solutions in the literature include video-shadowing (Cooren et al. , 2014) or micro-ethnographies (Howard-Grenville et al.…”

Section: Methodological Challenges and Solutions For Studying The Tem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Timely methods: a methodological agenda for researching the temporal in organizing

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Plotnikof²,

Stjerne³

2022

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Radical Change in an Extreme Context: Mountaineers Conquering the Darwin Cordillera in Patagonia

Musca¹,

Mellet²,

Rouleau³

et al. 2019

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Communication and attention dynamics: An attention‐based view of strategic change

Ocasio

Laamanen

Vaara

2017

Strategic Management Journal

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Research Summary: The attention-based view (ABV) has highlighted the role of organizational attention in strategic decision making and adaptation. The tendency to view communication channels as "pipes and prisms" for information processing has, however, limited its ability to address strategic change. We propose a broader role for communication as a process by which actors can attend to and engage with organizational and environmental issues and initiatives and argue that such a view can significantly advance understanding of strategic change. On this basis, we offer suggestions for future research on communication practices, vocabularies, rhetorical tactics, and talk and text in shaping organizational attention in strategic change. We also maintain that this enhanced view of the ABV can help advance research on dynamic capabilities, strategy processes, strategy-as-practice, and behavioral strategy. Managerial Summary: To further enhance our capabilities to manage strategic change and renewal processes in organizations, we need a better understanding of how to manage organizational attention. In this article, we highlight the importance of understanding the role of communication and discuss the use of different communication practices, vocabularies, rhetorical tactics, and talk and text as possible levers that can be used to dynamically shape organizational attention. We call for further research to advance the understanding of how these levers can be used to influence the ways in which different sets of strategic issues, initiatives, and action alternatives are handled. We believe that such an enhanced view of organizational attention can enable the development of new, improved strategy practices to manage strategic change and renewal processes.

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Language and Communication at Work

Cited by 15 publications

References 30 publications

Timely methods: a methodological agenda for researching the temporal in organizing

Timely methods: a methodological agenda for researching the temporal in organizing

Radical Change in an Extreme Context: Mountaineers Conquering the Darwin Cordillera in Patagonia

Communication and attention dynamics: An attention‐based view of strategic change

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