Description: This book explains how things get organized and how routines emerge in businesses and business life. The chapters explore historical episodes in a wide variety of settings, and encourage a view of firm operations and development that is much more realistic, and much more practically helpful, than the standard economic perspective.
Review Quotes: "The Emergence of Routines is much more than a book on how organizational routines emerge and evolve; it is a fascinating journey into the world of the business historian and reveals the value of history in understanding organization the historical essays in this book offer profound implications for future investigations of organizational routines-their emergence and morphing-by organizational, management, and entrepreneurship scholars, further contributing to the increasing salience of historical approaches in organization studies." --- Carlo Salvato, Administrative Science Quarterly