Purpose – The ultimate purpose of this paper it to encourage international business scholars and managers to pay more attention to global social time when performing research and developing business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – Strategic reference point (SRP) theory is used as a...

Purpose – As staff are vital to successful re‐branding, particularly in the charity sector where restricted budgets limit reliance on external marketing, it is important to understand the impact of re‐branding on staff. This study aims to examine the effect of time on staff knowledge,...

Purpose – The objective of this study is to examine the effects of superior preference and information source on staff auditor reporting decisions in the presence of time deadline pressure (TDP). Design/methodology/approach – A total of 67 graduate and upper‐level undergraduate accounting...

Purpose – The aim of the research is to investigate, using a field survey, the concept of underreporting of time (URT), from both an individual and organisational perspective as a defence mechanism for coping with time budget pressure. Design/methodology/approach – Big Four audit partners...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the shifting boundaries between two experiential categories – home and work – for office workers. The boundaries are both spatial and temporal, and the paper seeks to analyse how certain kinds of mobile technology are being used in such a way as to...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the ways in which recent “managerial” changes in Australian universities affect academics' experiences of their working lives; and the significance of time and space in academics' resistance to managerialism. Design/methodology/approach – This paper...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to provide insight beyond the internal dynamic of organizational change and explore how organizations contribute, at the symbolic and aesthetic level, to the experiential stabilization of spatio‐temporal change within society more generally. As such,...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how metaphors mediate organizational change across space and time. Design/methodology/approach – The data consist of 113 speeches by vice‐chancellors of a distance learning university, recorded in texts. Texts are apposite for this research as they...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that would enable the effective application of time based competition (TBC) and work in process (WIP) concepts in the design and management of effective and efficient patient processes. Design/methodology/approach –...

Das generelle Ziel der Arbeit besteht darin, bestehende Forschungsdefizite bei der Gestaltung eines zeitbasierten Performance Measurements in der Logistik abzubauen. Hierbei gilt es insbesondere, die wesentlichen 'Zeittreiber' in unternehmensweiten und unternehmens?bergreifenden Logistiksystemen...