Time to celebrate––a New EGOS Standing Working Group on Temporary Organizing (SWG13, 2025–2028), coordinated by Iben Stjerne, Jennifer Whyte, Alfons van Marrewijk, Jonas Söderlund, and Jörg Sydow
For EGOS 2025 in Athens, we invite scholars from various fields of research to advance debates on temporary organizing, time, and temporality.
Temporary organizing, such as, projects, agile organizations, short-term employment, accelerator programs, events, festivals, and inter-organizational networks, are understood as endeavors for change. This is because their temporariness may permit more agency to mobilize various pasts and create alternative futures, and break with routine activity. Through the reweaving of futures, pasts, and presents, they unleash novelty, innovation, and change to disrupt temporal routines as termination nears. However, the divide between organizing temporariness and permanence is less clear-cut, while a key question for organization theory. For instance, temporary organizations may over time become a permanent demand; or set to organize for routines tasks whose rhythm and pace differ from more permanent or continuous organizing. Hence, theorizing on temporary organizing implies needs for further conceptualizing this understanding as a co-constitutional relationship with the more permanent and ongoing.
We invite you to join and contribute to advancing these debates in the new SWG 13. The submission deadline is January 7, 2025. Please see the full call for short papers here as well as the general guidelines and criteria for the submission of short papers to EGOS here. We also encourage you to participate in the related PDW, which will be announced in the course of 2025.
In addition, we invite you to submit papers to a Project Management Journal special issue on "projects and creativity", autumn 2025 (eds. Sofia Pemsel, Jonas Söderlund and Iben Stjerne).
We look forward to seeing you in Athens!
Best regards,
Iben Stjerne, Timo Braun, and Matthias Wenzel
Sub-theme coconvenors
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Matthias Wenzel
Professor
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Lüneburg
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