In this ethnographic study of firefighters we explore how routines are coordinated under high
levels of temporal uncertainty—when the timing of critical events cannot be known in …

Research on routines has grown in recent years as scholars have increasingly recognized
the centrality of this organizational phenomenon (Parmigiani and Howard-Grenville 2011 …

To examine how organizational routines serve as a source for balancing conflicting
organizational goals, we use an inductive study of Alessi, an Italian design company, to …

Organizations use routines to accomplish work (Nelson and Winter, 1982). Routines are the
storehouses of organizational memory, often representing specialized or tacit knowledge …

This paper examines the emergence of temporal coordination among multiple
interdependent routines in a complex work setting that does not allow for up-front …

Over the last two decades, Routine Dynamics has emerged as an international research
community that shares a particular approach to organizational phenomena. At the heart of …

In organizational research, the most familiar units of analysis are individuals, groups,
establishments and organizations. These units have relatively clear boundaries, which make …

Once regarded as stable and inflexible, organizational routines are increasingly seen as
capable of being adapted to the situation at hand and a potentially important source of …

This paper explores the sequential structure of work processes in a task unit whose work
involves high numbers of exceptions, low analyzability of search, frequent interruptions, and …

In this paper, we challenge the traditional understanding of organizational routines as
creating inertia in organizations. We adapt Latour's distinction between ostensive and …