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| Type | Conference Presentation |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Embedding Routines in Resources: How Context Influences the Persistence and Change of Organizational Routines |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | Process Symposium |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Crete, Greece |
| Event Start Date | June 20 - 2013 |
| Event End Date | June 22 - 2013 |
| Abstract Text | Scholars have long recognized that organizational routines are sensitive to the context in which they are embedded; yet, little is known about how this embeddedness is generated in the first place and how it is maintained over time. Based on 12-month ethnographic observations, this study examines how routines are embedded in their context and how embeddedness influences the persistence and transformation of routines over time. Our results suggest that the resources that actors draw on to produce, reproduce and change the routine constitute the link between a routine and its context. Embeddedness is thus not a given characteristic of routines, but rather a dynamic process driven by enrolling and dropping out of resources as well as variations induced by change in resources. This perspective emphasizes how context is not only a constraining force, but also a trigger for routine change: We find that strong embeddedness increases variations in individual routine performances, but not in the abstract general pattern of the routine. Furthermore, our results indicate that there is a natural tendency of routines to become increasingly embedded in resources over time. |
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