The Dynamics of Organizational Routines

该提案概述了一种有价值的新方法， 制定组织惯例。 群体的能力， 将经验转化为流畅的日常工作是一个主要的 是组织生产力的源泉。 的过程 这种学习将持续的经验映射到日常生活中， 加强其现有结构或改造它们， 组织稳定性和组织能力的主要来源 变化 所有这一切都是从研究中得到的常识， 过去二十五年。 然而，在这方面进展甚微。 发展更深层次的组织惯例理论， 动力学 该提案分析了阻碍在以下方面取得进展的因素： 了解常规。 它扩展了建模的最新发展 认知过程提供了重要的新工具， 问题 该提案提出了一项研究计划， 计算机模拟与实验室实验和描述 从一个协调的计划中可以预期的结果， 理论发展和实验室研究。

This proposal outlines a valuable new approach to understanding the development of organizational routines. The ability of groups to convert experience into smoothly performed routines is a major source of the productive power of organizations. The process by which learning maps continuing experience into routines, either by reinforcing their existing structure or by transforming them, is a major source of both organizational stability and organizational change. All this has been common knowledge from studies in the last twenty-five years. Yet, there has been little progress in the development of a deeper theory of organizational routines and their dynamics. This proposal analyzes the factors that have blocked progress in understanding routines. It extends recent developments in modeling cognitive processes to provide important new tools for attacking the problems. The proposal presents a research program combining computer modeling with laboratory experimentation and describes the results that can be anticipated from a coordinated program of theory development and laboratory research.