The aim of this contribution is to proceed to an in-depth exploration of the micro-context of the origin of routines and of their intimate link with organizational creativity. Our view is that organizational creativity orchestrates continuous interactions between different types of routines,...

This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall’s view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into...

This cutting-edge, multidisciplinary Handbook comprises specially commissioned contributions surveying state-of-the-art research on the concept of organizational routines. An authoritative overview of the concept of organizational routines and its contributions to our understanding of...

In recent years, applied studies have shown widespread, profound and increasing heterogeneity across firms in terms of their strategy, organization arrangement and performance. This book investigates the diversity of business firms, offering a picture of the different organizational settings...

The following contribution aims to analyze the sources of creativity in a modern, highly innovative and ?stylised? company that does not rely on traditional sources of innovation (large R&D units, research cooperative agreements, R&D contracts with university centres, etc.). We show that the...

[eng] By considering the firm as a knowledge processor instead of an information processor, we show in this paper that the dimensions of the theory of the firm (existence, coherence and frontier of the firm...) have to be reconsidered and become more adequate to experiments and facts. In a first...

[fre] L'objectif de cette contribution est de prolonger la réflexion de Keith Pavitt sur la stratégie des firmes qui privilégie l'idée selon laquelle une bonne interprétation du mouvement stratégique de la technologie vers le marché suppose une compréhension claire de la distinction...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to clarifying the concept of routines, by focusing on a specific aspect of this concept: namely the question of localization of routines within the organization. We consider that one of the main weaknesses of the theory in the analytical treatment of...