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Time: A New Research Lens

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In this article, the authors discuss the issue of time as it pertains to organizational research and suggest that looking at research in terms of time is a powerful tool in assessing organizational phenomena.
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The article discusses the issue of time as it pertains to organizational research. The author believes that looking at research in terms of time is a powerful tool in assessing organizational phenomena. According to the author, temporal research allows researchers to gain more perspective when looking at organizational issues such as decision making, group performance and organizational transformation. The author notes that the field of temporal research is translated into concepts including pacing, timing and sequencing.

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Classification of time spent in the intrapreneurial process

TL;DR: It is suggested that empowerment and managerial benevolence toward intrapreneurs, who take time from their assigned tasks in the crucial phase of exploration, can help foster intrapeneurship.
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Temporality in Organization Studies: Implications for Strategic Project Management

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make an initial bridge of this gap and argue that in order to improvise project managers need temporal skills and the ability to adapt when linear assumptions confront the complexities of managing projects within a context of strategic calculation.
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Profiting from external knowledge: the impact of different external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation performance

TL;DR: It is discovered that companies that license in technology tend to produce more incremental innovations and a strong positive correlation between inter-organisational collaboration and both long-term and short-term innovation, and it is concluded that M&As have a major impact on the production of long- term radical innovations.
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Progress framing and sunk costs: How managers’ statements about project progress reveal their investment intentions

TL;DR: This article explored how managers' framing of project progress can reveal investment intentions and found that past-oriented statements, describing the amount of work done and amount of budget and time spent (75%), were perceived as revealing a preference for the sunk costs option to a larger extent than futureoriented statements describing the magnitude of work, budget, and time remaining (25%).
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The Knowledge Creating Company

TL;DR: The Japanese companies, masters of manufacturing, have also been leaders in the creation, management, and use of knowledge-especially the tacit and often subjective insights, intuitions, and ideas of employees as discussed by the authors.
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Organizations in Action

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Competing for the Future

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how to get off the treadmill and how to learn to forget and how competition for the future is different from the traditional competition for industry foresight.
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