The corporation remains a critical agent in the production of geographically uneven development. Furthermore, time is critical to the practices and deliberations taking place within corporations, yet it has been underappreciated within prominent economic geographical analyses. This article argues for the examination of the ‘black box’ of the corporation, as a site producing uneven development, and through which the temporalities of decision-making and deliberation are critical. Combined with the temporal insights of Harvey’s ‘social’ and ‘experiential’ space–times, conventions theory is utilised to elucidate the importance of the corporate deliberations and practices that come to produce uneven development. A conventions approach importantly provides a framework in which to examine the role of both conventionalised behaviours and how conventions are used in heterogeneous experiential space–time deliberations and decision-making and how this is interwoven with social spaces–times. Such an approach is critical in conceptualising the corporation as a deliberative social and experiential space–time series of sites and through which it is reified as a temporary instantiation.

该公司仍然是造成地理上不平衡发展的关键因素。此外，时间对于公司内部的实践和审议至关重要，但在著名的经济地理分析中，时间却未得到足够的重视。本文主张对公司的“黑匣子”进行检查，因为它是一个发展不平衡的场所，通过它，决策和审议的时效性至关重要。结合哈维（Harvey）的“社会”和“体验”时空的时间洞察力，惯例理论被用于阐明公司审议和实践对产生不均衡发展的重要性。约定方法重要地提供了一个框架，在该框架中可以检查常规行为的作用，以及如何在不同的体验性时空中使用约定（时间讨论和决策），以及如何将其与社会时空交织在一起。这种方法对于将公司概念化为经过深思熟虑的社交和体验时空系列站点至关重要，并通过这种方式将其固定化为临时实例。