The replication dilemma unravelled : how organizations enact multiple goals in routine transfer
D'Adderio, Luciana (2014) The replication dilemma unravelled : how organizations enact multiple goals in routine transfer. Organization Science, 25 (5). pp. 1325-1350. ISSN 1047-7039 (https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2014.0913)
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Abstract
I examine how organizations address the replication dilemma by imultaneously enacting contrasting goals while transferring routines across complex organizational settings. I address this issue by drawing on a qualitative case-based inquiry into the multiplicity of the routines’ ostensive and performative aspects in the context of routine transfer and exact replication. The subject of inquiry is a leading electronics organization facing the dilemma of how to deal with simultaneous competing pressures to copy exactly (replicate) and change (innovate). I find that organizational members address this dilemma (1) by harnessing artifacts and communities to establish two sets of ostensive patterns and performances, one supporting alignment (replication) and one improvement (innovation), and (2) by striving to maintain a dynamic balance between them by enacting them in different proportions. This allows offsetting competing goals and the related pressures both at specific points in time and over time. Building on these findings, I develop a theoretical framework that adds to the extant replication and routines literatures, and the Carnegie account of routine transfer and goal balancing, by capturing (1) the microlevel, performative dynamics by which organizations unravel the replication dilemma in routines transfer while addressing competing goals and the associated pressures and (2) the role of the social and material features of context in the (re)production and transfer of routines
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D'Adderio, Luciana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8240-6802;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 48682 Dates: DateEvent31 October 2014Published16 June 2014Published Online1 March 2014AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Strategy and Organisation
Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and InnovationDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 Jun 2014 14:30 Last modified: 07 Oct 2024 00:16 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/48682