By removing time from theoretical accounts,
variance theorizing abstracts away from the temporal
flow of much of organizational life. The temporal
structure of social practices and the uncertainty
and urgencies that are inherently involved in them
are passed over in the search for empirical regularities
and contingency models of explanation. The
particulars that make knowledge actionable—what
to do, at what point in time, in what context—are
not included in the timeless propositional statements
typically generated in variance theorizing
(Sandberg & Tsoukas, 2011: 342).