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Routines and Other Recurring Action Patterns of Organizations: Contemporary Research Issues
1University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1220, USA
2Deere and Co. John Deere Road, Moline, IL 61265, USA
3Department of Economics, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ Via A. Cesalpino 12/14, 00161 Roma
4Laboratory of Experimental Economics, University of Trento Via Inama 1, Trento, Italy
5Department of Economics, University of Trento Via Inama 1, Trento, Italy Universita' degli Studi di Venezia, Ca' Bembo, S. Trovaso, Venezia 30123 Italy
6The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
Abstract
This paper reports and extends discussions carried out during a workshop held at the Santa Fe Institute in August 1995 by the authors. It treats eight major topics: (i) the importance of carefully examining research on routine, (ii) the concept of ‘action patterns’ in general and in terms of routine, (iii) the useful categorization of routines and other recurring patterns, (iv) the research implications of recent cognitive results, (v) the relation of evolution to action patterns, (vi) the contributions of simulation modeling for theory in this area, (vii) examples of various approaches to empirical research that reveal key problems, and (viii) a possible definition of ‘routine’. An extended appendix by Massimo Egidi provides a lexicon of synonyms and opposites covering use of the word ‘routine’ in such areas as economics, organization theory and artificial intelligence.
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