Handbook of Organizational Routines

Edited by Markus C. Becker, Professor, Strategic Organization Design Unit, Department of Marketing and Management, University of Southern Denmark

• Contents:PART I1. The Past, Present and Future of Organizational Routines: Introduction to the Handbook of Organizational Routines Markus C. Becker2. The Concept of a Routine Geoffrey M. HodgsonPART II: ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES ACROSS DIFFERENT FIELDS3. Organizational Routines in Political Science Timothy J. McKeown4. Routines, ‘Going Concerns’ and Innovation: Towards an Evolutionary Economic Sociology Marc J. Ventresca and William N. Kaghan5. Organizational Routines in Accounting John Burns and Robert W. Scapens6. Problem Solving and Governance in the Capability-based View of the Firm: The Roles and Theoretical Representations of Organizational Routines Giovanni Dosi, Marco Faillo and Luigi MarengoPART III: ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES, SEARCH AND LEARNING7. Organizational Routines in Evolutionary Theory Thorbjørn Knudsen8. Organizational Routines and Organizational Learning Anne S. Miner, Michael P. Ciuchta and Yan Gong9. Organizational Routines and Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve 10. Routines and Routinization: An Exploration of Some Micro-Cognitive Foundations Nathalie Lazaric11. Staying on Track: A Voyage to the Internal Mechanisms of Routine Reproduction Martin Schulz12. The Role of Teams and Communities in the Emergence of Organizational Routines Patrick Cohendet and Patrick LlerenaPART IV: CONDUCTING EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES13. Issues in Empirical Field Studies of Organizational Routines Brian T. Pentland and Martha S. Feldman14. Conducting Experimental Research on Organizational Routines Alessandro Narduzzo and Massimo WarglienIndex

'The Handbook of Organizational Routines</> is one of the most fruitful outcomes of the recent attempts by a number of scholars from organizational science and evolutionary economics to increase the understanding of organizational routines and provide a framework for application in empirical studies. . . the Handbook of Organizational Routines provides a valuable resource for those who would like to use the concept as the unit of analysis for organizational behavior in the field of science, technology and innovation policy.'