Hernes, T. (2016). Process as the becoming of temporal trajectory. In A. Langley & H. Tsoukas (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies (pp. 601–606). London: SAGE. doi:10.4135/9781473957954.n38.
Key takeaways
Registered from metadata, not a reading. As the parent paper reports it, the chapter holds that events gain agency as they connect with other events while they occur, and so define a temporal trajectory that orients their becoming.
Why this is here
Bencherki, Brummans & Vézy 2024 (LIT-1902) take from it:
- that for process scholars agency happens in “streams” that “precede actors and not vice versa” (“Hernes, 2016, p. 3”, quoted p. 1350);
- that “the event gains agency as it connects with other events while it creates itself, thus defining a temporal trajectory that orients its becoming” (paraphrase, p. 1353);
- that events, not actors, are “the locus of agency” (p. 1350, with the 2014 book).
Whether they use it faithfully cannot be judged without the chapter. The “p. 3” page reference does not fit the published pagination, so the quoted wording may differ from the printed text.