The Dynamic Evolution Mechanism of Organizational Routines——A Study Based on the Interaction of Organizational Actions

Abstract

Abstract: Since the 1980s, scholars have changed their traditional cognition on organizational routines that routines represent where the stability comes from, and put forward the new concept that routines may show the significant characteristics of self-change and evolution, which indicates that organizational routines reflect a paradoxical situation with the coexistence of both stability and change. Accordingly, scholars have gradually set up the dynamic theory of organizational routines, and consequently regarded the internal dynamic evolution mechanism as the core research question in this field. Particularly, the two-component view of organizational routines shows that routines consist of the performative aspect and the ostensive aspect and there are consistent interactions between the two aspects, which may be the source of routines dynamics. Based on this two-component view, this research adopts the Transition Probability Matrix (First Order Markov Matrix) and Transition Probability to show the two aspects of organizational routines and their interaction and construct the dynamic evolution model. Through a series of tests which simulate the path dependence and interaction between actions and the process of depending on probability and selective retention, this research confirms the sustainable dynamics of organizational routines and shows the evolution rules.

Key words: organizational routines, dynamic evolution, organization action, interaction, transition probability matrix

Yu Zechuan, Lin Haifen, Qu Tingchen. The Dynamic Evolution Mechanism of Organizational Routines——A Study Based on the Interaction of Organizational Actions[J]. Management Review, 2020, 32(8): 281-294.

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