Employees in many contemporary organizations work with flexible routines and flexible
technologies. When those employees find that they are unable to achieve their goals in the …

Replication of existing routines in new contexts is an important value‐creating strategy for
organizations. This paper synthesizes the state of research on replication and organizes the …

We investigate how multiple actors accomplish interdependent routine performances
directed at novel intended outcomes and how this affects routine dynamics over time. We …

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

T he cially 1979, theory 1984, in the of 1987, structuration, work 1990, of Giddens 1991),
rooted was (1976, espefirst applied to organizational communication in the 1980s, a period …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discourse the essence and utility of (re) emergence
theory as the starting point of understanding and interpreting organizational routines …

Recent research in the field of safety science on the limitedness of rules as a measure to
achieve safety has coincided with new research in organization science on rules and …

Inquiring into how routines unfold increases our understanding of organization. This article
critiques current positionings of organizational routines as practices and offers an alternative …

A central issue in project-based organizations (PBOs) is how to balance the need for flexibly
responding to changing customer demands and creating consistent performance in the …

The focus on routines as 'generative systems' often portrays them as patterns of action
relatively divorced from their context. History can help to supply a deeper and richer context …