22126: Speed Matters: Exploring Slowness and Acceleration in Contemporary Organizations

Monday, July 28, 2025

17:15 - 18:45 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B4-m4

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/d6np7G

Session Chair(s)

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Christina Andrea Lüthy

Lund U., Sweden

Organizer(s)

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Sverre Spoelstra

Lund University, Sweden
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Sanne Frandsen

Lund University, Sweden
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Monika Müller

Lund University, Sweden

Panelist(s)

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Tor Hernes

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Nina Granqvist

Aalto U., Finland
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Lorenzo Skade

European Uni Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
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Alexandra Bristow

The Open U. Business School, United Kingdom
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Andre Spicer

City U. London, United Kingdom

This symposium aims at unpacking the multifaceted nature of speed—encompassing acceleration, deceleration, and slowness—as a vital yet underexplored dimension in organization and management theory. It examines how speed affects organizational practices, identities, and responses to societal challenges like technological change and sustainability. By addressing theoretical challenges, organizational and societal tensions, power dynamics and ethical dilemmas around the interplay between acceleration and slowness, the symposium fosters dialogue on navigating temporal complexity in organizations. Distinguished scholars will explore speed from multiple perspectives and engage with critical questions on how speed in organizations interacts with broader social systems, influences collaboration and group engagement, and affects workplace well-being and inclusivity, aiming to advance our understanding of a central temporal dimension and feature of contemporary organizing.