Organizational routines as grammars of action.

Administrative Science Quarterly;  September 1, 1994 ;   Pentland, Brian T. Reuter, Henry H.;   787 words ......sequential structure of organizational routines (Cohen and Bacdayan, 1984...are classic features of organizational routines, yet has high task variety...advantages when applied to organizational routines and other repetitive organizational...

ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES, SITUATED LEARNING AND PROCESSES OF CHANGE IN...

Project Management Journal;  September 1, 2005 ;   Bresnen, Mike; Goussevskaia, Anna; Swan, Jacky;   787 words ......focuses upon the role of organizational routines (Becker, 2004) in constraining...management processes; organizational routines; knowledge; learning...1996). Recent work on organizational routines has recognized that they...

Disrupted routines: Team learning and new technology implementation in...

Administrative Science Quarterly;  December 1, 2001 ;   Edmondson, Amy C. Bohmer, Richard M. Pisano, Gary P.;   787 words ......new technology adoption, organizational routines, which characterize much...which new behaviors and organizational routines are developed when technologies...new routines. CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES Organizational...

Learn How Not to Get Mired in Sacred Organizational Routines that Stifle...

M2 Presswire;  June 5, 2007 ;     433 words ......Markets: Learn How Not to Get Mired in Sacred Organizational Routines that Stifle People and Strangle Profitability...remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits...

Routines and the first few weeks of class.

The Clearing House;  May 1, 1995 ;   Appleton, Ken;   787 words ......strategy that I have found is the use of routines. A routine is a way of doing something...carpet, and so on. Most teachers use many routines, which are present in all teaching activities...high school teachers tend to use fewer routines than elementary teachers, possibly because...

Learning and routines in high-tech SMEs: analyzing rich case study...

Journal of Economic Issues;  June 1, 1996 ;   Costello, Neil;   787 words ......by firms [Nelson and Winter 1982], and routines are hypothesized to be systematic and...chreodic development [Hodgson 1993]. Routines are acquired by organizations in the...action. Three different categories of routines are distinguished by Nelson and Winter...

Routines Keep Us Grounded

Albuquerque Journal;  March 13, 2008 ;   RORY McCLANNAHAN Mountain View Telegraph;   524 words ......bring a couple closer together. Life is made up of routines and it's those routines that keep things sane. If everything was different...something to keep you grounded, and that's where routines come in. Some of the routines in our household...

ROUTINES MAKE IT CLEAR WHAT PARENTS, CHILD CAN EXPECT

The Boston Globe;  May 16, 2002 ;   BARBARA F. MELTZ;   787 words ......structure, predictability, constancy. When routines work well, children are happier. Just...professionals urged parents to maintain routines for children after Sept. 11. This isn...psychological. "Anchor a child's day with routines, especially the morning routine, and...

Integrated autocad routines help increase productivity. (The...

Process Heating;  April 1, 2002 ;     297 words ......implementing an integrated collection of automated routines that are written in the ObjectARX format from...Cedar Rapids, Iowa, offices updated Despatch's CAD routines. The original routines addressed two basic areas -- file management and...

Lee La hoping to refine routines

New Straits Times;  July 18, 2004 ;   Shenton Gomez;   330 words ......Times 07-18-2004 Lee La hoping to refine routines Byline: Shenton Gomez Edition: 2* Section...throughout the event as she aims to refine her routines in preparation for the national selections...improved gradually and hope to refine my routines to prepare myself for the national selection...

Design simple routines to diagnose ills in complex systems. (design of...

EDN;  June 22, 1989 ;   Klein, Matt;   787 words ...Design simple routines to diagnose ills in complex systems...sophisticated than ever, internal diagnostic routines are no longer an option, but a necessity...diagnostic programs are usually firmware routines that users can easily access by using...

Nag Fortran Library now has over 1,500 routines.(IT Products)

Database and Network Journal;  February 1, 2005 ;     345 words ......functions, taking the total number of routines in Mark 21 to 1500. which covers...mesh generation that incorporates routines for generating 2-D meshes together with a number of associated utility routines. Extensions have been included in...

Teaching Effective Classroom Routines.(Review)

Intervention in School & Clinic;  September 1, 2001 ;   Janz, Janice Rutledge;   552 words ...Teaching Effective Classroom Routines by Joseph Wilt, Lynn LaFleur, Gail...teachers. Teaching Effective Classroom Routines is a practical tool that can assist...by introducing specific classroom routines or basic school skills, with explicit...

Teaching Preperformance Routines to Beginners.(Health & Fitness)

JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance;  September 1, 2000 ;   LIDOR, RONNIE SINGER, ROBERT N.;   787 words ......intuitively developed, preperformance routines. Self-paced acts are those performed...behaviors. The most effective preperformance routines are usually employed with a high degree...part of the act itself. Preperformance routines can also be used in semi-stable settings...

Do all roads lead to Rome ... or Berlin? The evolution of intra- and...

Organization Studies;  September 22, 1998 ;   Delmestri, Giuseppe;   787 words ...Introduction Much evidence has been collected over the last twenty years to demonstrate that organizational structures and inter-firm relations are embedded in the social and institutional textures of nations or regions (Maurice et al. 1980; Orru et al. 1991; Sorge 1991; Lutz 1992; Whitley 1992;