Temporary Organizations

Edited by Patrick Kenis, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan, Research Fellow, Tilburg University, the Netherlands and Bart Cambré, Professor of Business Research Methods, Antwerp Management School and University of Antwerp, Belgium

• Contents: ForewordJörg Sydow Preface Introduction: Temporary Organizations – A Challenge and Opportunity for our Thinking About OrganizationsMartyna Janowicz-Panjaitan, Bart Cambré and Patrick Kenis PART I: MAKING THE CASE1. The Prevalence and Characteristics of Interorganizational Temporary Collaborations of Dutch Small and Medium-sized Firms (SMEs)Leon A.G. Oerlemans, Jan M.P. de Kok and Jeroen P.J. de Jong2. Research on Temporary Organizations: The State of the Art and Distinct Approaches Toward ‘Temporariness’Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan, René M. Bakker and Patrick Kenis 3. Applying Organization Theory to Temporary OrganizationsPatrick Kenis, Bart Cambré, Gerardus J.M. Lucas, Leon A.G. Oerlemans PART II: CONCEPTUAL INSIGHTS INTO TEMPORARY ORGANIZATIONS4. Time Matters: The Impact of ‘Temporariness’ on the Functioning and Performance of OrganizationsRené M. Bakker and Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan5. The Atemporality of Temporary Organizations: Implications for Goal Attainment and LegitimacyMartyna Janowicz-Panjaitan, Patrick Kenis and Patrick A.M. Vermeulen6. Proximity in Temporary OrganizationsJoris Knoben and Tobias Gössling7. Structure in Temporary OrganizationsJörg Raab, Joseph Soeters, Paul C. van Fenema and Erik J. de Waard8. The Resource Dilemma of Temporary Organizations: A Dynamic Perspective on Temporal Embeddedness and Resource DiscretionRené M. Bakker, Bart Cambré and Keith G. Provan9. Turning a Negative into a Positive: How Innovation Management Moderates the Negative Impact of TO Complexity on the Effectiveness of Innovative Interorganizational Temporary CollaborationsLeon A.G.Oerlemans and Marius T.H. Meeus 10. Conclusion: Toward an Integrated View of Temporary Organizations: Future Research Agenda and Managerial ImplicationsPatrick Kenis, Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan and Bart Cambré Index