Organizational Routines as Patterns of Action: Implications for Organizational Behavior

Posted: 14 Apr 2015

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Brian T Pentland

Michigan State University - The Eli Broad College of Business and The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management

Thorvald Hærem

BI Norwegian Business School - Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Date Written: April 2015

Abstract

In recent years, organizational routines have been studied in a wide variety of settings, including law, medicine, accounting, and engineering. This fieldwork has led to a broader understanding of organizational routines as repetitive, recognizable patterns of interdependent action, carried out by multiple actors. Routines are seen as practices that are situated in a social/material context. Within an organizational routine, individual actions are situated in a broader pattern of actions that can be represented as a network. Recognizing patterns of interdependent action as a unit of analysis entails a research paradigm that has implications for a range of topics in organizational behavior.

Suggested Citation

Pentland, Brian T and Hærem, Thorvald, Organizational Routines as Patterns of Action: Implications for Organizational Behavior (April 2015). Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 465-487, 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2594270 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032414-111412

Brian T Pentland (Contact Author)

Michigan State University - The Eli Broad College of Business and The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management ( email )

East Lansing, MI 48824-1121
United States

Thorvald Hærem

BI Norwegian Business School - Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour ( email )

Norway

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