Drawing on symbolic interactionism, we propose a process model for the creation and
recreation of routines. Our model extends the performative perspective by exploring how …

Building on an in-depth ethnographic study at a renowned research laboratory, we show
how the interactions of organizational routines can be more or less generative by tracing …

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

Whereas scholars have historically treated routines and creativity as contradictory concepts,
I adopt a dynamic ontology of routines that recasts them as a duality. Using data from a case …

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 …

I examine how organizations address the replication dilemma by simultaneously enacting
contrasting goals while transferring routines across complex organizational settings. I …

In this paper I claim that organizational routines have a great potential for change even
though they are often perceived, even defined, as unchanging. I present descriptions of …

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

When organization members strive to radically change routines, they face a puzzle: How can
they bring about change in performances when these are guided by pre-existing ideas on …