The Emergence of Routines
Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 December 2016
- ISBN 9780198787761
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 241x159x26 mm
- Weight 688 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book explains how things get organized and how routines emerge in businesses and business life. The chapters explore historical episodes in a wide variety of settings, and encourage a view of firm operations and development that is much more realistic, and much more practically helpful, than the standard economic perspective.
MoreLong description:
This book is a collection of essays about the emergence of routines and, more generally, about getting things organized in firms and in industries in early stages and in transition.
These are subjects of the greatest interest to students of entrepreneurship and organizations, as well as to business historians, but the academic literature is thin. The chronological settings of the book's eleven substantive chapters are historical, reaching as far back as the late 1800s right up to the 1990s, but the issues they raise are evergreen and the historical perspective is exploited to advantage.
The chapters are organized in three broad groups: examining the emergence of order and routines in initiatives, studying the same subject in ongoing operations, and a third focusing specifically on the phenomena of transition. The topics range from the Book-of-the-Month Club to industrial research at Alcoa, from the evolution of procurement and coordination to project-based industries such as bridge- and dam-building and the governance of defence contracting, and from the development of project performance appraisal at the World Bank to the way the global automobile industry collectively redesigned the internal combustion engine to deal with after the advent of environmental regulation. The chapters are vivid and thought-provoking in themselves and, for pedagogical purposes, offer excellent jumping-off points for discussion of relevant experiences and cognate academic literature.
The Emergence of Routines is much more than a book on how organizational routines emerge and evolve; it is a fascinating journey into the world of the business historian and reveals the value of history in understanding organization...the historical essays in this book offer profound implications for future investigations of organizational routines-their emergence and morphing-by organizational, management, and entrepreneurship scholars, further contributing to the increasing salience of historical approaches in organization studies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Silences and Beginning to Fill Them
Part One: Initiatives
The Book-of-the-Month Club as a New Enterprise
Capitalist Routine, Organizational Routines, and the Routinization of R&D at ALCOA
The Global in the 1980s and 1990s: Liquid Modernity, Routines, and the Case of Motorola's Iridium Satellite Communications Venture
The Dynamic Interplay between Standards and Routines: Lessons from Industry and Government
Part Two: Operations
Ford Motor Company's Lost Chapter: Purchasing Routine and the Advent of Mass Production
Heuristics, Specifications, and Routines in Building Long- Span Railway Bridges on the Western Rivers, 1865-1880
Rules of the Game: Dam Building and Regulation in California, 1910-1930
Instruments of Change: Contract Regulations as a Source of Flexibility in Defense Procurement, 1942-1972
Part Three: Transitions
The End of Judgment: Consumer Credit Scoring and Managerial Resistance to the Black-Boxing of Creditworthiness
Devising Routines for Project Appraisal at the World Bank, 1945-1975
Routines for Innovation: Problem-Oriented Knowledge Communities and the Production of Clean Combustion
Conclusion: Learning from History
