Special issue on routine dynamics exploring sources of stability and change in organizations
Luciana d'Adderio,
Martha S. Feldman,
Nathalie Lazaric and
Brian Pentland
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Luciana d'Adderio: The University of Edinburgh
Martha S. Feldman: UC Irvine - University of California [Irvine] - UC - University of California
Brian Pentland: University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] - University of Michigan System
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Abstract:
CALL FOR PAPERS The increasingly uncertain and fast-changing environments in which today's organizations operate call for a shift of attention from organizations-and organizational practices or routines-as fixed entities to the study of the distributed (Hutchins 1995) and situated (Suchman 1987, Lave 1988) dynamics by which they emerge and are constructed. Capturing how organizations learn to strike a balance between stability and coherence, on one hand, and flexibility and change, on the other, however, is non-trivial (Tsoukas and Chia 2002, Farjoun 2010). It requires abandoning static views of organization to reveal the microdynamics of organizing, including the processes through which organizational routines and capabilities emerge and evolve. The first crucial step forward in this direction has been to relinquish a fixed characterization of routines as monolithic objects to study the internal mechanisms by which they emerge as practices (Feldman 2000, Feldman and Pentland 2003). As a result, we have moved from conceptualizing routines as automatic, as dead or as opaque black boxes, to seeing them as alive, embodying agency and the potential for change (Cohen 2007, Pentland and Feldman 2008). In particular, this reconceptualization has proposed that routines themselves have dynamics. These routine dynamics have generally been theorized around the interaction of performative and ostensive aspects of routines. Empirical research and modeling of routine dynamics has extended our understanding of the role of routines in producing stability and change (Howard-While some of the questions made possible by the practice turn in research on organizational routines have been addressed, many questions remain. The following is a thematic list of questions. We do not propose these themes as mutually exclusive as we recognize the substantial interconnection among them. Instead we suggest the themes as points of entry that provide opportunities to
Keywords: Organizational routines; dynamics; orgnizations; practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06-22
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Published in Organization Science, 2012, 23 (6), pp.1782-1783
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