COT seminar with Tor Hernes

The Centre for Organization and Time (COT, IOA) invites to a seminar @bout time on:

Leveraging time lenses for integral theorizing of time in organizations
With Professor of Organization Theory at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark and is Adjunct Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway

Time and Date February 21st , 2025,13.30-15.00

Location K 4.74 Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14 A, 2000 Frederiksberg

Registration Please register through this link

Abstract
Tor Hernes will discuss implications of their recent review paper (Blagoev, Hernes, Kunisch & Schultz) entitled “Time as a Research Lens: A Conceptual Review and Research Agenda”. The paper groups time research into a process lens, a structure lens, and a resource lens. Tor Hernes will discuss how the lenses may be combined to shed new light on topics in organization research, such as strategy, innovation, future making, and sustainability research.

Brief Biography

Tor Hernes, PhD, is Professor of Organization Theory at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark and is Adjunct Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway. He is also honorary doctor at Estonian Business School. His research focuses primarily on organizations, process, and temporality, with a particular interest in an event-based understanding of time. In his recent work published in Journal of Management, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management review, Organization Studies, Organization Theory, and Strategic Organization, Tor Hernes has applied process-based time theorizing to different aspects of organizations. Tor co-directs the Centre for Organization and Time at CBS. His book, A Process Theory of Organization, won the George R. Terry Book award at the Academy of Management Conference in 2015. His most recent book, Organization and Time, published by Oxford University Press, discusses novel ways to understand the temporal shaping of organizations.