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_bEnglish
_cMSU
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050 0 0 _aHD28 ACA
100 1 _aGranqvist, Nina
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aTemporal institutional work
_cNina Granqvist and Robin Gustafsson
264 1 _aNew York:
_bAcademy of Management,
_c2016
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
440 _aAcademy of Management journal
_vVolume 59, number 3
520 3 _aTime is inherently present in empirical research on institutional change—most studies sequence actions and events across stages of development, over time. Yet research has overlooked how temporality, as a negotiated organizing of time, shapes institutional processes, despite the fact that timing, duration, and tenor of relationships are their foundational elements. To unpack the role of temporality in institutions, we examine how actors engage in temporal institutional work—that is, how they construct, navigate, and capitalize on timing norms in their attempts to change institutions. We draw on an inductive study of an institutional project to establish a novel foundation-based university that subsequently came to pace major statewide university reform. We identify three forms of temporal institutional work: entraining—as a top-down, routinized, reproductive form—and constructing urgency, and enacting momentum—both as bottom-up, issue-driven and generative forms. We show that by engaging in these types of work, actors produce windows of opportunity, synchronicity, and irreversibility as shared beliefs of temporality. These beliefs, in turn, shape how the wider institutional change unfolds. Our study shows that temporal institutional work enables institutional change. We discuss the implications for reconceptualizing institutional research from a temporal perspective.
650 _aOrganizational change
_vHigher education institution, Higher education reform
_xInstitutional change
_zNorthern Europe
700 1 _aGustafsson, Robin
_eco-author
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2013.0416
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_cJA
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