Handbook of Organizational Routines

Research Handbooks in Business and Management series

Edited by Markus C. Becker, Professor, Strategic Organization Design Unit, Department of Marketing and Management, University of Southern Denmark

This cutting-edge, multidisciplinary Handbook comprises specially commissioned contributions surveying state-of-the-art research on the concept of organizational routines. An authoritative overview of the concept of organizational routines and its contributions to our understanding of organizations is presented. To identify those contributions, the role of organizational routines in such processes as organizational learning, performance feedback, and organizational memory is discussed. To identify how the concept can contribute to different disciplinary fields, the expert authors review applications across a range of fields including political science, sociology, and accounting.

‘The Handbook of Organizational Routines is one of the most fruitful outcomes of the recent attempts by a number of scholars from organizational science and evolutionary economics to increase the understanding of organizational routines and provide a framework for application in empirical studies. . . the Handbook of Organizational Routines provides a valuable resource for those who would like to use the concept as the unit of analysis for organizational behavior in the field of science, technology and innovation policy.’
– Abdullah Gök, Science and Public Policy

‘The idea of routines has been one of the most productive in organization studies. Finally we have a broad, deep, and authoritative survey of the exciting research it has inspired.’
– Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California, US