Narrative Networks: Patterns of Technology and Organization

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When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies (2011, neutral): “often mediated by technology (Pentland and Feldman 2007) and (2) a”
Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World (2012, background): “The risks become even more heightened when individuals draw on multiple tools simultaneously in enacting their practices (Pentland and Feldman 2007).”
Beyond Collective Entities: Multilevel Research on Organizational Routines and Capabilities (2011, methodology): “…performance (Mehra, Kilduff, & Brass, 2001), the emergence of organizational knowledge (Orlikowski, 2002), and innovation and technology (Obstfeld, 2005; Pentland & Feldman, 2007) suggest fruitful avenues to extend network analysis to the study of capabilities and their component routines.”
Designing routines: On the folly of designing artifacts, while hoping for patterns of action (2008, background): “Within a narrative network, technologies that allow for substitutions and variations can lead to entirely new paths (Pentland & Feldman, 2007).”
The Role of Narratives in Sustaining Organizational Innovation (2009, background): “Even academicians use narratives to describe their findings and to theorize about the deeper driving forces that constitute dynamic processes in organizations (Pentland 1999, Pentland and Feldman 2007, Tsoukas 1989).”