Organizational Routines: How They Are Created, Maintained, and Changed
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Claus Rerup, Ann Langly, and Haridimos Tsoukas
Abstract
Over the past fifteen years, organizational routines increasingly have been investigated from a process perspective to challenge the idea that routines are stable entities that are mindlessly enacted. We summarize in this chapter what constitutes a process perspective on organizational routines, and document some of the major areas of recent inquiry, including change in routines, the role of artifacts in routine performances, and emergence of routines. Three other themes emerge from the various chapters that constitute this volume: (1) Zooming out to understand routines in larger contexts; (2) ... More
Over the past fifteen years, organizational routines increasingly have been investigated from a process perspective to challenge the idea that routines are stable entities that are mindlessly enacted. We summarize in this chapter what constitutes a process perspective on organizational routines, and document some of the major areas of recent inquiry, including change in routines, the role of artifacts in routine performances, and emergence of routines. Three other themes emerge from the various chapters that constitute this volume: (1) Zooming out to understand routines in larger contexts; (2) Zooming in to reveal actor dispositions and skill; and (3) Innovation, creativity, and routines in ambiguous contexts. The chapters also inspire future research that can extend a process perspective on routines by further zooming out and in, and by potentially using this metaphor to connect distinct findings by scholars studying routines from different perspectives.
Keywords:
organizational routines,
process perspective,
routines and contexts,
creativity and innovation,
actors and skill
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198759485 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198759485.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, editor
Diageo Reader in Management Studies, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Claus Rerup, editor
Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Western University
Ann Langly, editor
Professor, HEC Montréal
Haridimos Tsoukas, editor
Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus, and Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School
More
Less
