What is it about?

The paper explains why and how SEMATECH was set up and - as International SEMATECH evolved from a temporary to a permanent organizational form.

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Why is it important?

SEMATECH, as the leading research & development consortia in the industy, is an exemplar for others, often mentioned but rarely studied as an organizational form.

Perspectives

A temporary organizing perspective is adopted that systematically allows for considering the embeddedness of projects and other forms of temporary organizing into more permanent contexts.

Dr. Jörg Sydow
Freie Universitat Berlin

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This page is a summary of: Terminating Institutionalized Termination: Why SEMATECH became More than a Temporary System, January 2011, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/s0742-3322(2011)0000028010.
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