This chapter traces how scholarship over time has taken into consideration the process-
oriented nature of routines. The tracing includes the behavioral theory of the firm …

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

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

In the contemporary research literatures on organization and on business strategy, routine is
understood to be a distinct modality of organizational action–not merely the joint result of …

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 …

Organizational routines can be conceptualized as generative systems with internal
structures and dynamics. In this paper, we propose three different ways that organizational …

Organizational routines and capabilities have become key constructs in fields such as
organization studies, strategic management, international business, and technology …

The significance of routines within organizations is widely appreciated. 1 Without routines,
people within organizations would be overburdened with additional interpersonal …

Over the past 15 years, organizational routines have been increasingly investigated from a
process perspective to challenge the idea that routines are stable entities that are mindlessly …

This paper is about stability in organizational routines. It proposes a new explanation of
stability, based on mindfulness rather than mindlessness. Traditional explanations of …