scholarly journals Understanding and Solving Late Payment: The Role of Organizational Routines

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-156
Author(s):  
Isabelle Maque ◽  
Leire San-Jose
Keyword(s):  
Trade Credit ◽  
Organizational Routines ◽  
Business Relationship ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
European Legislation ◽  
Organizational Routine

European legislation has so far failed to alleviate late payment. We introduce the concept of organizational routine; this contributes to understanding late payment and its persistence and focuses on more effective ways of alleviating it. The case study between a large Spanish company and its Spanish SME suppliers gives an exemplary illustration of organizational (trade credit) routines and their dynamics in a two-sided business relationship. The large company’s imbalanced routine and the SMEs’ balanced routine explain late payment. Potential for change and the alleviation of late payment is to be found in routines’ internal dynamics and in participants’ understanding.

Artefacts and the Dynamics of Truces in Organizational Routines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás J.B. Wiedemann ◽  
Leona Wiegmann ◽  
Juergen Weber
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Organizational Routines ◽  
Process Perspective ◽  
Temporary Settlement

Organizational routines can constitute a temporary settlement of individual actors’ diverging interests, described as a truce that enables the routine as a collective accomplishment to proceed. In this regard, scholars have recognized the central but ambiguous role of artefacts; they may be used to coordinate the interactions in routines but may also be mobilized to serve individual interests. Following this line of thinking, this chapter assumes a process perspective to advance our understanding of how such temporal settlements are continuously formed and in particular, the role artefacts play in this process. Based on a single case study over a period of thirty-three months, it analyses the use of a newly implemented artefact that inadvertently impeded smooth routine functioning as the artefact provided content that gave actors leeway to act out their interests in enacting the routine.

The role of feedback in changing organizational routine: A case study of Haier, China

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 971-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing (Elaine) Chen ◽  
Tao Hua Ouyang ◽  
Shan L. Pan
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Routine

scholarly journals Mobilising the dispositive: Exploring the role of dockless public bike sharing in transforming urban governance in Shanghai

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802093794
Author(s):  
Wen-I Lin ◽  
Justin Spinney
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
Virtual Mobility ◽  
Hierarchical Relationships

This paper contributes to debates on urban governance and mobility through a case study of the transformation of public bike sharing schemes in Shanghai (China) from fixed/docked (PBSS 1.0) to flexible/dockless (PBSS 2.0). Based upon stakeholder interviews and observations between 2015 and 2017, we use the concept of a dispositive to foreground two related processes. The first is the reformulation of the governmental dispositive that coalesces around PBSS in Shanghai. We show how the relations within the dispositive shift from more hierarchical, bounded, regulated and state-led to those characterised by a more dispersed, disconnected, horizontal and distant set of social relations. Second, we show how this dispositive both produces and is produced by an emergent environmentality that manifests in a fixed territoriality in PBSS 1.0 and a more fluid and deterritorialised digital environmentality in PBSS 2.0. In framing this shift, we demonstrate how PBSS 2.0 produces a new dispositive of urban governmentality where the conduct of users is dispersed through a much less co-ordinated network of actors and technologies. Ultimately we argue that it is no longer possible to separate physical and virtual mobility when trying to understand the internal dynamics and external manifestations of mobility governance, which in our example are characterised by less localised and less hierarchical relationships that are more fluid, voluntary and physically distant.

scholarly journals Variações nas rotinas de um Instituto de Tecnologia e Inovação: adaptações ao contexto e (re)alinhamento de interesses

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 927-950
Author(s):  
Florence Vidal Perfeito ◽  
Samantha Luiza de Souza Broman ◽  
Sandra Regina da Rocha-Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Organizational Routines ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
The Creation

Resumo: Neste trabalho pesquisaram-se as razões para variações nas rotinas organizacionais de compras de insumos químicos em um Instituto de Tecnologia e Inovação do Rio de Janeiro. Os dados coletados basearam-se em entrevistas com 18 pessoas, na análise de mais de 30 documentos, e em observações empíricas, no período entre agosto de 2015 e janeiro de 2016. Os resultados encontrados sugerem falta de integração, assim como o desalinhamento de interesses e de interpretações entre as áreas envolvidas: são mantidas formas de desempenhar rotinas organizacionais com estruturas, artefatos e fundamentos que podem estar inadequados ao contexto de compras de insumos químicos, que são utilizados em rotinas de análises e ensaios. Logo, apesar de ter havido a criação de novos padrões de ação mais adaptados ao contexto, que  podem propiciar mais agilidade para as rotinas de compra, corroborando com a ideia do potencial generativo e da flexibilidade nas rotinas organizacionais preconizada pela teoria (Pentland & Feldman, 2005; Feldman, 2016), é possível observar que o andamento para a estabilização da nova rotina pode carecer de manifestações de trégua que possibilitem a revisão do uso dos artefatos nas rotinas. No presente trabalho também foram reveladas quatro categorias sobre os fatores motivadores das variações nas rotinas de compras, colaborando, assim, para o campo de estudo da Dinâmica das Rotinas (Routine Dynamics) e da ecologia das rotinas (Feldman, 2016; Howard-Grenville & Rerup, 2017), e, também, para o entendimento sobre o papel dos artefatos nas interações entre rotinas interdependentes e sobre a Trégua (Truce).Palavras-chave: Rotinas organizacionais. Padrões de ação. Processos institucionais.Changes on organizational routines on a Technology and Innovation Institute: suit to context and interests (re)alignment Abstract: This research sought to understand the motives driving the variations in organizational routines, within the context of chemical procurement for a Technology and Innovation Institute in Rio de Janeiro. This case study was based on 18 interviews and the analysis of more than 30 documents and empirical observations, in the period between August 24, 2015 and January 29, 2016. The results suggest a lack of integration and a misalignment of the interests and interpretations between the areas, thus incentivizing maintaining routines with structures, artifacts and bases inadequate for the context of chemical procurement, which are used in analysis and testing routines. Therefore, despite the creation of new standards of action that are better adapted to the context and can provide streamlining of procurement routines, consistent with the idea of flexibility of organizational routines advocated by the theory (Pentland & Feldman, 2005; Feldman, 2016), it is possible to observe that the progress towards the stabilization of the new routine may lack manifestations of truce that allow the revision of the use of the artifacts in the routines. The present work also revealed four categories on the motivating factors of the variations in the procurement routine, thus collaborating for the field of study of the Routine Dynamics and routines ecology (Feldman, 2016; Howard-Grenville & Rerup, 2017), with the understanding of the role of artifacts in the interactions between interdependent routines and about the Truce.Keywords: Organizational routines. Patterns of action. Institutional processes.

scholarly journals The role of storylines in penal policy change

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452198953
Author(s):  
Harry Annison
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Reform Project

Bringing policy reform to fruition is an enterprise fraught with difficulty; penal policy is no different. This paper argues that the concept of ‘storylines’, developed within policy studies, is capable of generating valuable insights into the internal dynamics of penal policy change and particularly the ‘commmunicative miracle’ whereby policy participants sufficiently align to achieve reform. I utilize the part-privatization and part-marketization of probation services in England and Wales (‘Transforming Rehabilitation’) as a pertinent case study: a policy disaster foretold, but nonetheless inaugurated at breakneck speed. Drawing on interviews with policy makers, I demonstrate the means by which the ‘rehabilitation revolution’ storyline resolved (at least temporarily) the tensions and problems inherent in the reform project; without which it would have struggled to succeed. We see that storylines play at least three important roles for policy makers: they enable specific policies to ‘make sense’, to ‘fit’ in line with their pre-existing beliefs. They provide a sense of meaning, moral mission and self-legitimacy. And they deflect contestation. In closing, I consider the implications for scholars of penal policy change.

A Coup Hidden in a Mutiny

2018 ◽  
pp. 101-124
Author(s):  
Maggie Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military

This chapter focuses on a revolt involving roughly fifty soldiers on April 29, 1992 in Sierra Leone. A brief history of the role of the military in Sierra Leone prior to the revolt will help contextualize the soldiers’ grievances. The chapter will then examine the internal dynamics of the unit drawing on interviews with soldiers involved in the revolt. Their complaints and suspicions about political leaders crystalized into a plan for a mutiny and ultimately resulted in a coup. This case study builds on the discussion of the differences between coups and mutinies.

A City of Commerce and its Native Banks: Reviewing the History of Hankou Qianzhuang before 1952

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 171-193
Author(s):  
Yun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Large Group ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Local Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
Business In China ◽  
Native Place

Hankou was once the host city of a large group of native banks or Qianzhuang in China. This case study examines the local archives to explore their urban origins, business customs and internal dynamics of Qianzhuang in Hankou from the mid-1800s. Despite all their struggles, Hankou Qianzhuang disappeared almost inconspicuously in 1952. The archival evidences from the local sources indicate that their formal dissolution had resulted more from political changes than from their inability to serve modern businesses or resistance against ruling orders. These new findings may contribute to China’s monetary history literature, particularly on the role of native-place ties and traditional features in structuring the conduct of business in China.

Emergence of organizational routines in entrepreneurial ventures

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifen Lin ◽  
Michael Murphree ◽  
Sali Li
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Organizational Routines ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stage Process ◽  
Role Management

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand the understanding of the process by which organizational routines emerge in entrepreneurial ventures. The emphasis is on the role of management and interaction in shaping shared schemata among members of the enterprise. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a longitudinal interpretive and exploratory case study based on semi-structured interviews, archival material and naturalistic observation at a startup enterprise in China. Findings Focusing on the process through which shared schemata emerge to lay the foundation for routines in new firms, the authors find shared schemata emerge through a three-stage process: individual schemata emergence, partially shared schemata emergence and organizationally shared schemata emergence. Analogical transfer, strong foundational leadership and horizontal interaction among employees facilitate the development of individual schemata and their evolution into the shared schemata underlying organizational routines. Research limitations/implications This paper contributes to the understanding of routine formation in entrepreneurial ventures by creating a framework of the stages of development of organizational routines, as well as the role management plays in each stage. This contribution fits within the emergent field of microfoundations, linking individual actions and cognition to organizational outcomes and adding to this the contribution of social interaction. Practical implications Managers in new Chinese enterprises could benefit from understanding the importance of routinization and the managerial approaches which facilitate routine formation. This will increase the likelihood of firm survival as well as the competitive strength of the firm. Originality/value To date, there has been little research on how routines arise in entrepreneurial ventures, and none on explicitly the role for management and interaction in fostering routinization.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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