Title: The contextual meaning of routines

Authors: Janusz Strużyna

Addresses: Katowice University of Economics, Bogucicka Street 3, 40-287 Katowice, Poland

Abstract: A number of studies are dedicated to the comparison between the concepts of routines developed by different scholars. The available literature, however, offers scarce studies that confront the theoretical proposals for the understanding of routines with their understanding by non-theorists. The results of the analysis that are presented in this paper can be seen as an attempt to fill this gap. The goal of the paper is to identify the general differences and similarities between the theoretical and non-theoretical meaning of routines. The idea of the empirical investigation draws on the idiographic approach.

Keywords: routine; organisational routines; non-theoretical meaning of routines; change in routines.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2017.087499

International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2017 Vol.14 No.3/4, pp.284 - 297

Received: 01 Aug 2016
Accepted: 29 Jan 2017
Published online: 16 Oct 2017 *

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