Re-viewing routines through a Pragmatist lens

Simpson, Barbara and Lorino, Philippe; Howard-Grenville, Jennifer and Rerup, Claus and Langley, Ann and Tsoukas, Haridimos, eds. (2016) Re-viewing routines through a Pragmatist lens. In: Organizational Routines. Perspectives on Process Organization Studies . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 47-70. ISBN 9780198759485

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Abstract

The practice-based view that currently dominates the routines literature is based on an ostensive-performative duality. However, from the perspective of process philosophy, this duality, or at least the manner in which it is applied, presents four key obstacles to a more processual theorization of routines. This chapter offers an alternative approach that builds on Pragmatist philosophy, especially the ideas of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, which inform a performative rather than a representational approach to understanding ordinary everyday actions. The argument provides an account of the social and temporal situatedness of human conduct in terms of the inter-related processes of habit, inquiry, and conversational trans-actions.

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Simpson, Barbara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-0092 and Lorino, Philippe; Howard-Grenville, Jennifer, Rerup, Claus, Langley, Ann and Tsoukas, Haridimos
  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:56224
    Dates:
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    24 March 2016
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    Notes:This is the approved version of a chapter that appears in "Organizational Routines : How they are created, maintained, and changed" edited by Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Claus Rerup, Ann Langley, and Haridimos Tsoukas, and published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
    Keywords:Pragmatism, performativity, temporality, habit, inquiry, conversational trans-action, Management. Industrial Management, Strategy and Management
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Strategy and Organisation
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:25 Apr 2016 17:35
    Last modified:10 Mar 2023 01:46
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56224
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