Speed – of production, of information flow, of capital moving through deregulated financial and trading systems – is apparently ubiquitous, as indeed is its seemingly inexorable increase in the consequently ever shorter here and now that we inhabit.

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But with so much going on, and going on so quickly, how can it all – can any of it – be attended to? This text assembles a range of thoughtful contributors who have bent their minds to deploy a range of different perspectives to consider our current fascination with speed and its implications for our organizing and organizations. Through writings ordered into three key themes – The Speed of Organizational Identity, The Speed of Organizational Technology and The Speed of Organizational Imagery – these authors invite you to take gulps of theoretical and reflective air, to hold in abeyance for a moment the breathless talk of a faster tomorrow, to pause to look at the hurdy gurdy. Fast food, dotcoms, hotdesking and international travelers fly across the page, skillfully illuminated by insights drawn from theorists past and present. The speed of organization will certainly be more vivid for you after having read this book.

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Peter Case is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of the West of England. Simon Lilley is Reader in Information and Organisation at the University of Leicester Management Centre. Tom Owens is Professor of Marketing at the International Business, Budapest. In March 2004 they co-edited a special issue of the journal Culture and Organization on the theme of “Organizing Speed” (Volume 10, Number 1).