PATH NETS: CONCURRENCE AND RECURRENCE IN THE DYNAMICS OF ORGANIZING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pentland, Brian T.; Kremser, Waldemar; Goh, Kenneth T.
• 署名单位: Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Johannes Kepler University Linz; Singapore Management University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2022.0412
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 114-137
• 关键词: EVENT-SYSTEM-THEORY; ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES; time; entrainment; work; PERSPECTIVES; management; dependence; matter; rhythm

摘要

This article proposes a link between temporal structuring and the dynamics of organizing that is manifest in a fabric of concurrent paths that we call a path net. Path nets are shaped by mechanisms of temporal structuring, such as entrainment, planning, agency, and chance. Path nets materialize the effects of temporal structuring here and now in the comings and goings of actors and resources, thereby setting the stage for doings and sayings of situated practice and shaping the dynamics of organizing. Path nets offer a parsimonious system of picturing the complexity of organizing that is built on a processual ontology of paths and events. Through the lens of the path net, we can picture temporal structuring as a motor for organizing that drives recurrence without assuming stability or change. Comings and goings are readily observable, so path nets open new directions for empirical research on temporality and the dynamics of organizing.