The concept of routines: some clarifications

By Markus C. Becker. 2005

148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. N. J. Foss
2. Dale Southerton
3. Teppo Felin
4. Michael S. Dahl
5. P. Bryant
6. Toke Reichstein
7. E. Stam

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. N. J. Foss
2. Teppo Felin
3. Dale Southerton
4. Michael S. Dahl
5. P. Bryant
6. Toke Reichstein
7. E. Stam

In Strategy and Management

1. N. J. Foss
2. Teppo Felin
3. Dale Southerton
4. Michael S. Dahl
5. P. Bryant
6. Toke Reichstein
7. Torben Pedersen
8. Dana B. Minbaeva

Citations in the corpus

• Imprinting by Design: The Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Adaptation (2014, background): “Regarding the development of routines—defined as recurrent action patterns (Becker, 2005)—if a founding group shares a strong entrepreneurial life story schema, then specific features of such a life story, such as narratives of risk-taking behavior, may become part of the organization’s management…”
• Microfoundations of Routines and Capabilities: Individuals, Processes, and Structure (2012, unknown): “Our purpose is to anchor and build on the more common definitions rather than to provide an exhaustive review (for recent work that offers thorough reviews of definitions see Barreto, 2010; Becker, 2005; Cohen et al., 1996; Hoopes and Madsen, 2008; Leiblein, 2011; Di Stefano et al., 2010).”
• The endogenous origins of experience, routines, and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus (2010, background): “There is a relatively recent interpretation of routines and capabilities that has some links to the rationalist and internalist approach that we are advocating, namely the literature on routines as ‘dispositions’ (Becker, 2005a: 818; see Hodgson, 2003, 2004; Hodgson and Knudsen, 2004).”
• Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices (2013, background): “…as activities that follow a particular or familiar sequence, recur with relatively predictable periodicity or, as is the case in the concept of organizational routines, represent institutionalized and tacit procedures that guide actions and produce ‘recurrent interaction patterns’ (Becker, 2005).”
• Are You Experienced? Prior Experience and the Survival of New Organizations (2007, background): “Decision making at all 1 For an interesting discussion of the concept of organizational routines, see Becker (2004, 2005). levels will subsequently depend on these routines, which will govern the evolution of the firm.”