Business Temporal Norms and Bereavement Behavior
研究现代商业时间规范（如准时、高效）如何影响丧亲行为，揭示商业逻辑对哀悼仪式和死亡工作的渗透，适合关注工作与生活冲突、组织行为或社会心理的学者。
The development of modern commerce and industry gave rise to distinctive concepts and norms governing use of time, which include precise measurement, scheduling, punctuality, standardization, pricing, and efficient use of time. It is problematic how extensively the temporal norms of business have come to dominate various aspects of social life. The paperfocuses on bereavement. It examines the process in which business came to cast the situation of the bereaved worker in a temporalframework: time off. This gave emphasis to prescriptions as a basis for organizing death work and extended business conventions to bereavement practices andfunerary rituals. As bereavement practices have been brought increasingly into consistency with the business temporal code, bereavement has taken on the meanings of the business system, reflecting and reinforcing a social order based on businesslike management of time.