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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title What is routine dynamics?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Martha S Feldman
  • Brian T Pentland
  • Luciana D'Adderio
  • Katharina Dittrich
  • David Seidl
Editors
  • Martha S Feldman
  • Brian T Pentland
  • Luciana D'Adderio
  • Katharina Dittrich
  • David Seidl
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics
ISBN 9781108993340
Place of Publication Cambridge
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Page Range 1 - 18
Date 2021
Abstract Text This chapter offers an introduction to Routine Dynamics as a particular approach to studying organizational phenomena. We provide a brief description of the genealogy of research on routines; starting with the work of the management scholar Fredrick Taylor (1911) and the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey (1922) at the beginning of the last century, to the works of the Carnegie School on standard operating procedures around the middle of the last century, to the economics-based Capabilities approach and finally the practice-based approach of Routine Dynamics around the turn of the century. We also discuss the advantages of conceptualizing patterns of action as “routines”, as compared to “practices”, “processes”, “activities” or “institutions”. In particular, we highlight that the concept of routines directs the researcher’s attention to certain specificities of particular action patterns, such as task orientation, sequentiality of actions, recurrence and familiarity as well as attempts at reflexive regulation. We also introduce and explain the key concepts of the Routine Dynamics perspective and how they have developed over time.
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Official URL https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993340.002
Digital Object Identifier 10.1017/9781108993340.002
Other Identification Number merlin-id:22052
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