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Designing routines: On the folly of designing artifacts, while hoping for patterns of action

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It is argued that artifact-centered assumptions about design are not well suited to designing organizational routines, which are generative systems that produce recognizable, repetitive patterns of interdependent actions, carried out by multiple actors.
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This article is published in Information and Organization.The article was published on 2008-10-01. It has received 493 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Generative systems.

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Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory

TL;DR: The emerging field of practice theory as it is practiced in relation to organizational phenomena is described and three approaches---empirical, theoretical, and philosophical---that relate to the what, the how, and the why of using a practice lens are identified.
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When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies

TL;DR: The imbrication metaphor is used to suggest how a human agency approach to technology can usefully incorporate notions of material agency into its explanations of organizational change.
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When flexible routines meet flexible technologies: affordance, constraint, and the imbrication of human and material agencies

TL;DR: In this article, a human and material agency metaphor is used to suggest how a human agency approach to technology can usefully incorporate notions of material agency into its explanations of organizational change.
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Microfoundations of routines and capabilities: individuals, processes, and structure

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three primary components underlying routines and capabilities: individuals, social processes, and structure, and discuss how these components, and their interactions, may affect routine and capability.
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Organizational resilience: a capability-based conceptualization

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize resilience as a meta-capability and decompose the construct into its individual parts, and suggest three successive resilience stages (anticipation, coping, and adaptation).
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Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User

TL;DR: Regression analyses suggest that perceived ease of use may actually be a causal antecdent to perceived usefulness, as opposed to a parallel, direct determinant of system usage.
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Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user acceptance of information technology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and validated new scales for two specific variables, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, which are hypothesized to be fundamental determinants of user acceptance.
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User acceptance of information technology: toward a unified view

TL;DR: The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as mentioned in this paper is a unified model that integrates elements across the eight models, and empirically validate the unified model.
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An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an evolutionary theory of the capabilities and behavior of business firms operating in a market environment, including both general discussion and the manipulation of specific simulation models consistent with that theory.
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Sensemaking in organizations

Karl E. Weick
TL;DR: The Nature of Sensemaking Seven properties of sensemaking Sensemaking in Organizations Occasions for Sensemaking The Substance of Sense-making Belief-Driven Processes of Sense Making Action-driven Processes on Sensemaking.
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