Time is gaining recognition as an important research perspective, yet the assumptions,
concepts, and boundaries of this perspective vary greatly across different fields. This …

Rhetorical history has emerged as a useful theoretical construct that bridges the long
recognized gap between historical and organizational scholarship. Despite its growing …

Theory is at the very heart of organizational scholarship and a key criterion for evaluating the
quality and contribution of our research. Focusing on conceptual rather than empirical work …

With the looming planetary emergency, the future will be anything but an extension of the
past. Yet theorizing the future poses a peculiar problem. By definition, it is not present yet …

This Special Topic Forum (STF) addresses a subject that is both ubiquitous and elusive:
time. Time shapes how people speak, act, and interpret the world, whether as individuals …

One of the most significant challenges of pursuing distant-future goals is sustaining a course
of action toward a future with solutions that do not yet exist. We address this challenge in a …

Time and temporality are central to strategy and strategic management. Yet, relatively little
attention has been paid to what organizational members do to shape temporal phenomena …

What do organizations do, and why? An important but only selectively scrutinized aspect of
the doings of organizations consists in their creation of imaginaries of economic futures …

Time-based theorizing has recognized the importance of temporal complexity but tends to
reduce it to tensions and conflicts among but two static temporal demands. We …

Resilience research has extensively addressed how organizations cope with disruptive
events and their immediate impact. The focus of this research has been on how …