Introduction : temporary organizations -- a challenge and opportunity for our thinking about organizations / Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan, Barb Cambré and Patrick Kenis -- 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 Jong -- Resrarch on temporary organizations : the state of the art and distinct approaches toward 'temporariness' / Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan, René M. Bakker and Patrick Kenis -- Applying organization theory to temporary organizations / Patrick Kenis [and others] -- Time matters : the impact of 'temporariness' on the functioning and performance of organizations / René M. Bakker and Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan -- The atemporality of temporary organizations : implications for goal attainment and legitimacy / Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan, Patrick Kenis and Patrick A.M. Vermeulen -- Proximity in temporary organizations / Joris Knoben and Tobias Gössling -- Structure in temporary organizations / Jörg Raab [and others] -- The resource dilemma of temporary organizations : dynamic perspective on temporal embeddedness and resource discretion / René M. Bakker, Bart Cambré and Keith G. Provan -- Turning a negative into a positive : how innovation management moderates the negative impact of TO complexity on the effectiveness of innovative interorganizational temporary collaborations / Leon A.G. Oerlemans and Marius T.H. Meeus -- Conclusion : toward an integrated view of temporary organizations : future research agenda and managerial implications / Patrick Kenis, Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan and Bart Cambré.
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This title provides a systematic treatment of the temporary organizations - an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which individuals or organizations work together on a joint task for an ex ante limited period of time.