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Chapter 3 - Process Theorizing and Routine Dynamics

The Case for Performative Phenomenology

from Part I - Theoretical Resources for Routine Dynamics Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2021

By
Haridimos Tsoukas
Edited by
Martha S. Feldman ,
Brian T. Pentland ,
Luciana D'Adderio ,
Katharina Dittrich ,
Claus Rerup  and
David Seidl
Martha S. Feldman
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Brian T. Pentland
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Luciana D'Adderio
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Katharina Dittrich
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Claus Rerup
Affiliation:
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
David Seidl
Affiliation:
University of Zurich
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Summary

In this chapter, I revisit key tenets of Routine Dynamics (RD) research to take stock of its progress and note areas for further development, and then show how strong process-cum-practice perspective, which I have called performative phenomenology, may be drawn upon to advance RD research. I argue that RD research will need to: explore how tacit knowledge affects routine enactment; better understand exogenously originated deliberate change in routines; and take explicitly on board the moral dimension of routine enactment.

Keywords

Routinesroutine dynamicsprocess ontologyphenomenologytacit knowledgeexogenous changemorals
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Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics , pp. 37 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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