Deadlines,routines, and change |
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Authors: | Philip Bromiley Alfred Marcus |
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Institution: | (1) University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, 5455 Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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Abstract: | Routines, the habitual and predictable behavior patterns of an organization, play central roles in both maintaining organizational
performance and in adapting such performance to changing conditions. Deadlines interact with routines in important ways in
influencing the course of organizational adaptation. This paper examines the role of routines and deadlines in influencing
change in a regulatory program. It describes the adaptation of routines in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) water
pollution and pesticide programs in response to pressures and deadlines imposed by Congress, the courts, and the White House.
The programs analyzed offer contrasting glimpses of the effects of routines on organizational change. Routines may be collective
and shared by the members of an organization or unique to the specific groups or subgroups within it. When the organization
primarily has widely-shared routines, few options will be perceived; consequently, collective routines tend to blunt the impact
of pressures for change. On the other hand, routines that become fragmented, diverse, and individual in the face of repeated
external pressures may facilitate change. |
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