Do organizational routines change as experience changes?

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 468-490

  Espedal, Bjarne ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Change; Experience; Organizational learning; Routines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750478699     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886306291601     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Argote, L. (1999). Organizational learning: Creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge. Boston: Kluwer Academic.
2. Argote, L., & Ophir, R. (2001). Intraorganizational learning. In J. A. C. Baum (Ed.), Companion to organizations (pp. 181-207). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
3. Argyris, C. (1999). On organizational learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Business.
4. Argyris, C., & Schön, D. (1978). Organizational learning: A theory of action perspective. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
5. Askvik, S., & Espedal, B. (1989). lære eller ikke lære? Studier i ledelse av Omstillingsforløp [To learn or not to learn: A study of how leaders adapt to change]. Bergen, Norway: Administrative Research Foundation.
6. Barney, J. (1991). Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management, 17, 99-120.
7. Bettis, R. A., & Prahald, C. K. (1995). The dominant logic: Retrospective and extension. Strategic Management Journal, 16, 5-14.
8. Bolman, L., & Deal, T. (1997). Reframing organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
9. Burgelman, R. A. (1994). Fading memories: A process theory of strategic business exit in dynamics environments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 39, 24-56.
10. Burgoyne, J., & Jackson, B. (1997). The arena thesis: Management development as a pluralistic meeting point. In J. Burgoyne & M. Reynolds (Eds.), Management learning (pp. 54-70). London: Sage.
11. Cannon, M. D., & Edmondson, A. C. (2001). Confronting failure: Antecedents and consequences of shared beliefs about failure in organizational work group. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 22, 161-177.
12. Chandler, A. (1962). Strategy and structure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
13. Cohen, W. D., & Bacdayan, P. (1996). Organizational routines are stored as procedural memory: Evidence from a laboratory study. In W. D. Cohen & L. S. Sproull (Eds.), Organizational learning (pp. 403-429). London: Sage.
14. Cook, S. D. N., & Yanow, D. (1993). Culture and organizational learning. Journal of Management Inquiry, 2, 373-390.
15. Crozier, M. (1964). The bureaucratic phenomenon. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
16. Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. (1963). A behavior theory of the firm. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
17. Damasio, A. R. (1994). Descartes' error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. New York: Avon.
18. Feldman, M. S. (2000). Organizational routines as a source of continuous change. Organization Science, 11, 611-629.
19. Feldman, M. S., & Pentland, B. T. (2003). Reconceptualizing organizational routines as a source of flexibility and change. Administrative Science Quarterly, 48, 94-118.
20. Fineman, S. (2003). Emotionalizing organizational learning. In M. Easterby-Smith & M. A. Lyles (Eds.), Handbook of organizational learning and knowledge management (pp. 557-574). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
21. Fiol, C. M. (1994). Consensus, diversity and learning in organizations. Organization Science, 5, 403-420.
22. Giddens, A. (1979). Central problems in social theory: Action, structure and contradiction in social analysis. Berkeley: University of California Press.
23. Gioia, D. A., & Poole, P. P. (1984). Scripts in organizational behavior. Academy of Management Review, 9, 449-459.
24. Hambrick, D. C., & Mason, P. (1984). Upper echelons. The organization as a reflection of its top managers. Academy of Management Review, 9, 193-206.
25. Hannan, M. T., & Freeman, J. R. (1984). Structural inertia and organizational change. American Sociological Review, 29, 149-164.
26. Hargadon, A., & Sutton, R. I. (1997). Technology brokering and innovation in a product development firm. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42, 716-749.
27. Hedberg, B. (1981). How organizations learn and unlearn. In P. C. Nystrom & W. H. Starbuck (Eds.), Handbook of organizational design (Vol. 1, pp. 3-27). New York: Oxford University Press.
28. Henderson, R. M., & Clark, K. B. (1990). Architectural innovation: The reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of established firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, 9-30.
29. Huber, G. P. (1996). Organizational learning: The contributing processes and the literatures. In M. D. Cohen & L. S. Sproull (Eds.), Organizational learning (pp. 124-162). London: Sage.
30. Kogut, B., & Zander, U. (1992). Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities, and the replication of technology. Organization Science, 3, 383-397.
31. Langley, A. (1999). Strategies for theorizing from process data. Academy of Management Review, 24, 691-710.
32. Latour, B. (1986). The powers of association. In J. Law (Ed.), Power, action and beliefs: A new sociology of knowledge (pp. 264-280). Boston: Routledge Kegan Paul.
33. Levinthal, D. A., &. March, J. G. (1993). The myopia of learning. Strategic Management Journal, 14, 95-112.
34. Levitt, B., & March, J. G. (1988). Organizational learning. Annual Review of Sociology, 14, 318-340.
35. March, J. G. (1991). Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organizational Science, 2, 71-87.
36. March, J. G. (1994). A primer on decision-making. New York: Free Press.
37. March, J. G. (1999). The pursuit of organizational intelligence. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
38. March, J. G., & Olsen, J. P. (1988). The uncertainty of the past: Organizational learning under ambiguity. In J. G. March (Ed.), Decisions and organizations (pp. 335-358). Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.
39. March, J. G., & Olsen, J. P. (1995). Democratic governance. New York: Free Press.
40. March, J. G., Schulz, M., & Zhou, X. (2000). The dynamics of rules. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
41. March, J. G., & Simon, H. A. (1993). Organizations. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
42. Miller, D. (1994). What happens after success: The perils of excellence. Journal of Management Studies, 31, 325-357.
43. Milliken, F. J., & Lant, T. K. (1991). The effect of an organization's recent performance history on strategic persistence and change: The role of managerial interpretation. In P. Shrivastava, A. Huff, & J. Dutton (Eds.), Advances in strategic management (Vol. 7, pp. 129-156). Greenwich, CT: JAI.
44. Nelson, R. R., & Winter, S. G. (1982). An evolutionary theory of economic change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
45. Pfeffer, J. (1992). Managing with power. Politics and influence in organizations. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
46. Pfeffer, J., & Salancik, G. R. (1978). The external control of organizations: A resource dependent perspective. New York: Harper and Row.
47. Prahalad, C. K., & Hamel, C. (1990). The core competence of the corporation. Harvard Business Review, 68, 79-91.
48. Ross, J., & Staw, B. M. (1993). Organizational escalation and exit: Lessons from the Shoreham nuclear power plant. Academy of Management Journal, 4, 701-732.
49. Scherer, K. R., & Tran, V. (2001). Effect of emotion on the process of organizational learning. In M. Dierkes, A. Berthoin Antal, J. Child, & I. Nonaka (Eds.), Handbook of organizational learning and knowledge (pp. 369-394). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
50. Starbuck, W. H., Greve, A., & Hedberg, B. (1978). Responding to crises. Journal of Business Administration, 9, 111-137.
51. Staw, B. M. (1997). The escalation of commitment: An update and appraisal. In A. Shapira (Ed.), Organizational decision making (pp. 191-215). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
52. Staw, B. M., & Fox, F. V. (1977). Escalation: The determinants of commitment to a chosen course of action. Human Relation, 30, 431-450.
53. Thompson, J. D. (1967). Organizations in action. New York: McGraw-Hill.
54. Tripsas, M., & Gavetti, G. (2000). Capabilities, cognition and inertia: Evidence from digital imaging. Strategic Management Journal, 21, 1147-1161.
55. Tushman, M. L., & Anderson, P. (1986). Technological discontinuities and organization environments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 31, 439-465.
56. Walsh, J. R., & Ugson, G. R. (1991). Organizational memory. Academy of Management Review, 16, 57-91.
57. Weber, M. (1947). The theory of social and economics organizations. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
58. Weick, K. E. (1995). Sensemaking in organizations. London: Sage.
59. Weick, K. E., & Roberts, K. H. (1993). Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38, 357-381.
60. Weick, K. E., Sutcliff, K. M., & Obstfeld, D. (1999). Organizing for high reliability: Processes of collective mindfulness. In R. I. Sutton & B. M. Staw (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior (pp. 81-123). Greenwich, CT: JAI.
61. Weick, K. E., & Westley, F. (1996). Organizational learning: Affirming an oxymoron. In S. Clegg, C. Hardy, & W. R. Nord (Eds.), Handbook of organization studies (pp. 440-458). London: Sage.
62. Winter, S. G. (2003). Understanding dynamic capabilities. Strategic Management Journal, 24, 991-995.