Routine Dynamics

Christian A. Mahringer is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Stuttgart School of Management, Germany, and Project Leader at the WIN-Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.Brian T. Pentland is Main Street Capital Corporation Endowed Professor in the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, USA.Birgit Renzl is Full Professor and the Chair of Management and Organization at the University of Stuttgart School of Management, Germany.Kathrin Sele is Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Lecturer at Aalto University, Finland.Paul Spee is Associate Professor in Strategy at the University of Queensland Business School, Australia.

• Chapter 1. Routine Dynamics: Organizing in a World in Flux; Christian A. Mahringer, Brian T. Pentland, Birgit Renzl, Kathrin Sele, and Paul SpeeChapter 2. A Dialectical Perspective of Truce-Making Processes: Integrating Women into Close Combat Roles in the Armed Forces; Alessandro Alvarenga, Mehdi Safavi, and Gary T. BurkeChapter 3. Routine Dynamics: Creating and Filling Voids in a World in Flux; Lisa Balzarin and Francesco ZirpoliChapter 4. The Magic of the Unicorn: Understanding Long-Term Routine Dynamics through a Tradition in Flux; Jeremy BirnholtzChapter 5. The Micropolitics of Routines and Routine “Improvement”; Geneviève Desbiens and Ann LangleyChapter 6. Riding on the Waves of Change: Towards Pulsating Normality as a Process of Routinizing Novelty; Kim Louisa DillenbergerChapter 7. Granularity Matters! Towards a Methodological Framework for Understanding Routine Dynamics; Waldemar Kremser and Daniel GeigerChapter 8. Agile Routines Enabling Efficiency and Flexibility: Demarcating and Integrating Temporal Orientations; Florian Ritter, Anja Danner-Schröder, and Gordon Müller-SeitzChapter 9. Strategic Improvising: A Routine Dynamics perspective; Andreas Schwendener and Simon GrandChapter 10. Routine Formation as a Layered Process; Paul Spee, Joanna Kho, Anna Jenkins, and Paula JarzabkowskiChapter 11. From Paths to Patterning: Improvisations and Routine Dynamics; Bonnie Rose Stanway and Stefan MeisiekChapter 12. Agency, Action, and Time: A Relational Approach to Routine Dynamics in a World in Flux; Sunny Mosangzi Xu and Paul R. Carlile