Applying Organizational Routines in understanding organizational change

Markus Becker (1) , Nathalie Lazaric (2) , Richard P. Nelson (3) , Sidney G. Winter (4)

1 SDU - University of Southern Denmark
2 GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion
3 Dept. of Civil Enginnering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
4 Department of Computer Science and Engineering [University Park]

Organizational routines are considered basic components of organizational behavior and repositories of Organizational capabilities (Nelson and Winter, 1982). They do, therefore, hold one of the keys to understanding organizational change. We identify problems encountered in such research and present proposal for how to deal with them, in order to advance our knowledge of routines and our understanding or organizational change. Developing these themes, we also introduce the articles in the special section 'Towards an Operationalization of the Routines concept'.

Domaines: Economies et finances

Markus Becker, Nathalie Lazaric, Richard P. Nelson, Sidney G. Winter. Applying Organizational Routines in understanding organizational change. Industrial and Corporate Change, 2005, 14 (5), pp.775-791. ⟨hal-00457068⟩