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| Type | Conference Presentation |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Talk in and about Strategic Routines: How Organizational Routines are talked into being |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | No |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | 4th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Kos, Greece |
| Event Start Date | June 21 - 2012 |
| Event End Date | June 23 - 2012 |
| Abstract Text | The formation of organizational routines is crucial for organizational survival and for building competitive advantage. Yet, the question of how routines are formed has been treated rather cursorily in the literature. While established routines are relatively autonomous, setting up new ones often entails considerable coordination. This requires the use of talk, a dimension that has been neglected by the routines literature so far. Based on the study of six routines in a start-up company, this paper explores how talk influences the formation of organizational routines. Our study identifies three distinct modes of talk and, in tracing them over time, documents cyclical patterns of talk. In drawing on practice theory, we suggest that the three modes of talk offer different degrees of awareness and reflection, thereby restricting or opening up discussions about the routine. A breakdown in the transition from one mode of talk to the other may result in a failure of routine formation. |
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