Emergence and Functionality of OrganizationalRoutines: An Individualistic Approach

The functionality of organizational routines, i.e. the factual value for accomplishing theirpurposes, is an important constraint on the capabilities an organization can bring to bear on itsoperations. Often falling short of its potential, the actual make-up of organizational routinesinvites managerial attention. Of the criteria by which the functionality can be assessed, thegeneric one discussed in this paper is whose interests this make-up serves. This is determined bythe conditions under which organizational routines emerge, particularly the cognitive andmotivational attitudes of the organization members involved at this stage.[...]