Moving Away from Chronological Time: Introducing the Shadows of Time and Chronotopes as New Understandings of 'Narrative Time'

This article aims to present and explain 'time' as a theoretical and a narrative concept. Most studies of change management define time as chronological time. This article presents two alternative time definitions: the shadows of time and the chronotopes, pointing toward understanding time as an asymmetric literary genre in futures studies of change management.