How can we understand secrecy as temporal processes in organization? How can we address the inherent dynamics between concealment and revelation over time? In this paper, we build on an inherent and yet overlooked character of secrecy as temporal and explores temporalization processes of secrecy. We suggest that secrecy should be reconceptualized as processes of simultaneous concealment and revelation in multiple temporalities. Drawing on such temporal sensitivity, we apply a history-laden analysis of four examples of archival stories as ongoingly completing processes of secrecy. The analysis sheds light on the paradoxical dynamics of secrecy in three interconnected ways: first, writing archival stories offer opportunities to mask and attack the concealed. Therefore, second, archival stories as the site and process that sustain secrecy can become the site where secrecy is revealed. In this sense, as the third way, secrecy is ongoingly and fragmentally formed, producing multiple and subjective experiences of time. This paper also contributes to the methodological potential for using archival stories in organizational studies.

我们如何将保密理解为组织中的时间过程？随着时间的流逝，我们该如何解决隐藏和启示之间的内在动力？在本文中，我们基于秘密作为时间的固有但被忽略的特征，并探讨了秘密的时间过程。我们建议，应将保密性重新概念化为在多个时间上同时隐瞒和启示的过程。利用这种时间敏感性，我们对四个历史案例的存档历史进行了分析，以作为不断完善的保密过程。分析通过三种相互联系的方式揭示了保密的矛盾动态：首先，撰写档案故事提供了掩盖和攻击隐蔽者的机会。因此，第二，作为维持秘密的场所和过程的档案故事可以成为揭示秘密的场所。从这种意义上讲，作为第三种方式，保密是不断形成和零散形成的，产生了多种主观的时间体验。本文还为在组织研究中使用档案故事的方法学潜力做出了贡献。