Organizational Routines and Innovation: Micro and Macro Antecedents
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organizational routines, change, stability, innovation routine, micro and macro antecedents
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This paper explores the ambiguous nature of organizational routines in regard to generating innovation or innovation routine. Considering the dual character of routine, we conceptualize that routines have inherently a potential to drive changes, therefore, organizational routines should be considered as a trigger of innovation. In order to exploit organizational routines as a vehicle for innovation, managers should be aware that micro and macro level factors influence the dynamics of
routines. Hence, to design proper organizational settings managers should learn about the mechanisms activating learning processes as essential for new knowledge generation as well as for novelty generation through organization built on a routine system.
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Stańczyk-Hugiet, E. (2019). Organizational Routines and Innovation: Micro and Macro Antecedents. Journal of Management and Financial Sciences, (31), 99–110. https://doi.org/10.33119/JMFS.2018.31.8
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2. Becker, M. C., 2008. Handbook of organizational routines. Heteltham: Edward Eldgar.
3. Becker, M. C., Knudsen, T. and March, J. G., 2006. Schumpeter, winter, and the sources of novelty. Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 353–371.
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7. Cyert, R. M. and March, J. G., 1963. A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. New York: Englewood Cliffs.
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9. Denrell, J., 2005. Why most people disapprove of Me: Experience sampling in impression formation. Psychological Review, vol. 112, no. 4, pp. 951–978.
10. Dosi, G., Nelson, R. and Winter, S., 2000. Introduction: The nature and dynamics of organizational capabilities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
11. Eisenhardt, K. M. and Martin, J. A., 2000. Dynamic Capabilities: What Are They? Strategic Management Journal, vol. 21, no. 10–11, pp. 1105–1121.
12. Feldman, M. S., 2000. Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change. Organization Science, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 611–629.
13. Feldman, M. S. and Pentland, B. T., 2003. Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change. Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, p. 94.
14. Felin, T. and Foss, N. J., 2011. The endogenous origins of experience, routines, and organizational capabilities: The poverty of stimulus. Journal of Institutional Economics, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 231–256.
15. Felin, T., Foss, N. J., Ferraro, F., Pfeffer, J. and Sutton, R. I., 2009. Social Reality, the Boundaries of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, and Economics/How and Why Theories Matter: A Comment on Felin and Foss (2009). Organization Science, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 654–681.
16. Gavetti, G., 2005. Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities’ Development. Organization Science, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 599–617.
17. Gavetti, G. and Levinthal, D., 2000. Looking Forward and Looking Backward: Cognitive and Experiential Search. Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 113–137.
18. Geiger, D. and Schröder, A., 2014. Ever-Changing Routines? Toward a Revised Understanding of Organizational Routines between Rule-Following and Rule-Breaking. Schmalenbach Business Review, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 170–191.
19. Gersick, C. J. G. and Hackman, J. R., 1990. Habitual routines in task-performing groups. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 65–97.
20. Güttel, W. H., 2006. 1 Innovation, Change and Rule-breaking. OLKC Conference University of Warwick, pp. 1–26.
21. Hodgson, G. M., 2003. The Mystery of the Routine: The Darwinian Destiny of an Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Revue Economique, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 355–384.
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27. Levitt, B. and March, J. G., 1988. Organizational Learning. Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 14, pp. 319–340.
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29. Nelson, R. and Winter, S., 1982. An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
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31. Parmigiani, A. and Howard-Grenville, J., 2011. Routines revisited: Exploring the capabilities and practice perspectives. Academy of Management Annals, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 413–453.
32. Pentland, B. T., Feldman, M. S., Becker, M. C. and Liu, P., 2012. Dynamics of Organizational Routines: A Generative Model. Journal of Management Studies, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 1484–1508.
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