Temporary Organizing and Acceleration: On the Plurality of Temporal Structures in Accelerators

Reframing the Case Method in Entrepreneurship Education

“…Live casework adds the further level of being a 'unique aggregator of process' because the feedback, conflict resolution, knowledge, information retrieval, and so on must be timed with the learning process of the students' work and the reality of the MEs. Thus, the casework becomes a form of temporary organizing (Skade et al, 2020). Transitions or interactions between casework contexts could, in a similar way to Skade et al's (2020) notions of 'sequencing, freezing, and merging' (p. 105), indicate a need to further discuss the temporal practices that the different stakeholders are undertaking.…”

“…Thus, the casework becomes a form of temporary organizing (Skade et al, 2020). Transitions or interactions between casework contexts could, in a similar way to Skade et al's (2020) notions of 'sequencing, freezing, and merging' (p. 105), indicate a need to further discuss the temporal practices that the different stakeholders are undertaking. One perspective could be that interruptions in the casework can cause higher-level reflection (Cope, 2003), and that situational variability can impose further learning challenges and synergies.…”

Moving too fast? Addressing temporality and acceleration in Portuguese business ventures scaling

“…As illustrated by different authors (Blank, 2010;Dille, Söderlund and Clegg, 2018;Drori and Wright, 2018;Wenzel and Koch, 2018;Skade et al, 2020), start-up business venturing constitutes a socioeconomic activity molded by temporality. As suggested by Ries (2016Ries ( [2011: 23): "The aim of a start-up is to find the right thing to build -what customers want and will pay to have -as quickly as possible, in extremely uncertain conditions."…”

“…As suggested by Ries (2016Ries ( [2011: 23): "The aim of a start-up is to find the right thing to build -what customers want and will pay to have -as quickly as possible, in extremely uncertain conditions." Depicting therefore a start-up business venturing as an organizational practice of a contingent and temporary nature, that imply and encourage temporal conditioning practices related with acceleration (e.g., "moving fast", "scaling", "fast grow") (Rosa, 2013;Skade et al, 2020), can constitute therefore a diverse perspective that allows to shed light over its social and organizational implications.…”

“…Although prior research has highlighted temporality and time regulation as key dimensions that drive business ventures creation and scaling, little is known on acceleration and speeding-up implications, namely on how actors experience and enact these as infrastructural bases of employment relations, possibly recasting their experience of time (Wajcman, 2015). Insights from the literature on time (Orlikowski and Yates, 2002;Reinecke and Ansari, 2017), business venturing acceleration (Skade et al, 2020) and temporary organizing (e.g., Bakker et al, 2016;Dille, Söderlund and Clegg, 2019) suggest that the enactment of acceleration as temporal conditioning practice, tends to invoke and come along with time-related tensions experienced by different actors. These tensions tend to be overlooked, in an institutional and managerial perspective (Kunisch et al, 2017;Skade et al, 2020).…”