Related Publications

These publications develop the idea of organizational routines as patterns of action. They employ methodologies for creating narrative networks by tracing associations between actions.

Feldman, M. S., Pentland, B. T., D'Adderio, L., Dittrich, D., Rerup, C. and Seidl, D. (Eds), (2021) Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, Cambridge University Press.

Feldman, M. S. and Pentland, B. T. (2022). Routine Dynamics: Towards a Critical Conversation. Strategic Organization, 20 (4), 846-859.

Hansson, M., Hærem, T., and Pentland, B.T. (2022) “The Effect of Repertoire, Routinization and Enacted Complexity: Explaining Task Performance Through Patterns of Action,” Organization Studies.

Pentland, B.T., Yoo, Y., Recker, J., and Kim, I. (2022) “From Lock-in to Transformation: A Path-centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing,” Organization Science, 33(1): 194-211.

Pentland, B.T., Vaast, E. and Ryan Wolf, J. (2021) "Theorizing process dynamics with directed graphs: A diachronic analysis of digital trace data," MIS Quarterly, 45(2) 967-984.

Pentland, B.T., Mahringer, C., Dittrich, K., Feldman, M.S. and Ryan Wolf, J. (2020) "Process Multiplicity and Process Dynamics: Weaving the Space of Possible Paths," Organization Theory, 1(3), 1-21.

Pentland, B.T., Recker, J., Ryan Wolf, J., and Wyner, G. (2020) "Bringing Context into the Analysis of Process with Digital Trace Data," The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) , 21(5),1214-1236.

Pentland, B.T., Liu, P. Kremser, W., and Hærem, T. (2020) “Dynamics of Drift in Digitized Processes,” MIS Quarterly, (44:1), 19-47.

Goh, K. and Pentland, B. T. (2019) "From Actions to Paths to Patterning: Toward a Dynamic Theory of Patterning in Routines," Academy of Management Journal, 62(6), 1901-1929.

Kremser, W., Pentland, B.T. and Brunswicker, S. (2019) “Interdependence within and between routines: A performative perspective,” Research in Sociology of Organizations, Vol 61, p. 79-98.

Pentland, B.T., Recker, J. and Wyner, G. (2017) "Rediscovering Handoffs," Academy of Management Discoveries, 3(3), 284-301.

Ryan, J. L., Pinto, D., Pentland, A. P., & Pentland, B. T. (2016). 147 Complexity thermometer: Unraveling complexity of clinic process. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 136(5), S26.

Pentland, B.T., Recker, J. and Wyner, G. (2017) Rediscovering Handoffs, Academy of Management Discoveries, doi:10.5465/amd.2016.0018

Pentland, B.T., Recker, J. and Wyner, G. (2016) Conceptualizing and Measuring Interdependence between Organizational Routines, Thirty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems, Dublin, Ireland.

Feldman, M.S. Pentland, B. T., D’Adderio, L. and Lazaric, N. (2016) Beyond routines as things: Introduction to the special issue on routine dynamics, Organization Science, 27(3), 505-513.

Hærem, T. Pentland, B. T., and Miller, K. D. (2015) Task complexity: Extending a core concept, Academy of Management Review, 40(3): 446-460.

Pentland, B.T., Recker, J. and Wyner, G. (2015) A thermometer for interdependence: Exploring patterns of interdependence using networks of affordances, Thirty Sixth International Conference on Information Systems, Ft. Worth, TX.

Pentland, B. T., Hærem, T. (2015) Organizational Routines as Patterns of Action: Implications for Organizational Behavior, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Vol 2, 465-488.

Miller, K.D., Choi, S. and Pentland, B.T. (2014) The role of transactive memory in the formation of organizational routines, Strategic Organization, 12(2): 109-133.

Pentland, B.T. and Liu, P. (in press) Network Models of Organizational Routines: Tracing Associations Between Actions, in S. Jain and R. Mir (Eds), Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies.

Pentland, B. T., Pentland, A. P. and Calantone, R. (2017) "Bracketing off the actors: Towards an action-centric research agenda," Information and Organization, 27, 137-143.

Pentland, B.T. and Liu, P. (2017) Network Models of Organizational Routines: Tracing Associations Between Actions, in S. Jain and R. Mir (Eds), Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies.

Ryan, J. L., Pinto, D., Pentland, A. P., & Pentland, B. T. (2016). 147 Complexity thermometer: Unraveling complexity of clinic process. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 136(5), S26.

Feldman, M.S. Pentland, B. T., D’Adderio, L. and Lazaric, N. (2016) Beyond routines as things: Introduction to the special issue on routine dynamics, Organization Science, 27(3), 505-513.

Hærem, T. Pentland, B. T., and Miller, K. D. (2015) Task complexity: Extending a core concept, Academy of Management Review, 40(3): 446-460.

Miller, K.D., Choi, S. and Pentland, B.T. (2014) The role of transactive memory in the formation of organizational routines, Strategic Organization, 12(2): 109-133.

Pentland, B.T., Feldman, M. S., Becker, M. and Liu, P. (2012), "Dynamics of Organizational Routines: A generative model", Journal of Management Studies.

Miller, K.D., Pentland, B.T. and Choi, S. (2012) "Dynamics of Performing and Remembering Organizational Routines", Journal of Management Studies.

Pentland, B. T., T. Haerem and D. Hillison (2011) "The (n)ever changing world: Stability and change in organizational routines", Organization Science.

Pentland, B. T., T. Haerem and D. Hillison (2010) "Comparing Organizational Routines as Recurrent Patterns of Action", Organization Studies,31(7), 917-940.

Pentland, B. T. and Feldman, M. S. (2007) "Narrative Networks: Patterns of technology and organization", Organization Science, 18(5), 781-795.

Pentland, B. T. and Feldman, M. S. (2005) "Organizational routines as a unit of analysis", Industrial and Corporate Change , 14(5), 793-815.

Feldman, M. S. and Pentland, B. T. (2003) "Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change", Administrative Science Quarterly, 48(1), 94-118.