abstract This article introduces the Special Issue and discusses the microfoundations of
routines and capabilities, including why a microfoundations view is needed and how it may …

Organizational routines and capabilities are thorny constructs, but their complexity has been
largely underappreciated. In this article, the authors illustrate how new and more complex …

Organizational routines, repetitive patterns of interdependent organizational actions, have
been investigated through the lens of capabilities, rooted in organizational economics, and …

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

Micro‐foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management.
This paper addresses micro‐foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of …

In this paper we discuss the origins and emergence of organizational routines and
capabilities. We first argue that there are theoretical and endogeneity-related concerns …

This paper offers an alternative to the view of the routines literature provided by T. Felin and
NJ Foss,'The Endogenous Origins of Experience, Routines and Organizational Capabilities …

The current conceptualization of dynamic capabilities entails a paradox, one that hampers
the achievement of one of the framework's main missions: While studies on dynamic …

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 …

The basic motivation for the microfoundations research agenda in strategy has been to
decompose macro-level constructs in terms of the actions and interactions of lower level …