Technical Notes on Management Literature
The Worldview of the Process School of Organizational Routine
Introduction of Technical Notes Series on Howard-Grenville et al. (2016)
2023 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 35-42
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2023 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 35-42
In this paper, as an introduction to the technical note series “How Organizational Routines Are Created, Maintained, and Changed―Howard-Grenville et al. (2016),” we outline the worldview of the process school of organizational routine theory. In particular, we contrast the worldviews of March and Simon (1958) and Nelson and Winter (1982) to show that the process school views organizational routines as phenomena that emerge as a result of the interactions of organizational members, rather than existing independently of their actions.
