This review examines the concept of organizational routines and its potential for
investigating educational initiatives in practice. The studies in our review revealed three …

This paper advances understanding of the coordination of interdependence between
multiple intersecting routines and its influence on the balancing of coexisting ostensive …

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 …

Second, at the heart of ethnographic research is a logic of discovery (Locke, 2011).
Ethnographers are open to surprises in the field and they work with these surprising …

Performing Organizational Paradoxes takes a constitutive, process approach to
organizational paradoxes. It underscores the performative nature of paradox through …

Despite recent calls for processual analysis of routines creation, little work has been done to
investigate the entrepreneurial mechanisms that explain the creation and adoption of new …

Routines are an essential aspect of innovation processes as all new ideas must be
implemented into daily routines to work. Previously, public management theory has …

Projects are forms of organizing that have become increasingly common in the past
decades. The ad-hoc and temporary nature of projects seemingly poses significant …

There is limited time for elementary teacher professional learning in science in order to meet
the aspirational goals of current reform efforts. In this study, we investigated what and how …

Every day, professionals in public service organizations–schools, hospitals, police stations,
welfare offices and child protective agencies–make decisions which may profoundly impact …