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LIT-1124: Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1386) in full, from UC Irvine's eScholarship deposit of the published pages, by OCR; worth reading as the paper that splits a routine into an ostensive aspect, the pattern as participants understand and refer to it, and a performative aspect, its enactments, each making the other, so that a routine can change endogenously by variation and selective retention within it. Read it knowing that it is theory with one illustrative example and no data, that its analysis stays inside one routine in one organization, and that it does not separate a particular organization's continuity from reproduction of a kind, which was A6's question for it; it only doubts that routines carry unchanging genealogical information between organizations.
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Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1386 — Feldman and Pentland — Reconceptualizing organizational routines

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Feldman, M. S. & Pentland, B. T. (2003). Administrative Science Quarterly 48(1):94–118.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1386). To A6’s question, no: the paper analyses one routine in one organization and only doubts, as an empirical matter, that routines pass unchanged between organizations.

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A6 of the exchange of 2026-10-16 put it first: the organizational-studies form of persistence through changing enactments, and the test of whether CLAIM-329 is already known there. A6’s question for it: does it separate a particular organization’s continuity from reproduction of an organizational kind?

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