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This study contributes to the understanding of temporary organizing by going beyond traditional studies of single temporary organizations (TOs) to propose a framework that compares the Brazilian and German football teams in the 2014 World Cup as two TOs in the same industry, sharing similar rules for duration, but embedded in different contexts and competing against each other. It explores how their members attached different meanings to temporariness; experienced different temporal boundaries; had different levels of focus on the present, task immersion, and buffering from the external environment; and ultimately reached different levels of performance and goal attainment.
Author(s):
Regina Bento
U. of Baltimore
United States
Amir Pezeshkan
U. of Baltimore
United States
