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The Emergence of Routines: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History
. Ed(S): Raff, Daniel M. G.; Scranton, Philip
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Description for The Emergence of Routines: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History
hardcover. This book explains how things get organized and how routines emerge in businesses and business life. The chapters explore historical episodes in a wide variety of settings, and encourage a view of firm operations and development that is much more realistic, and much more practically helpful, than the standard economic perspective. Editor(s): Raff, Daniel M. G.; Scranton, Philip. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: KJC; KJH; KJU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 688.
This book is a collection of essays about the emergence of routines and, more generally, about getting things organized in firms and in industries in early stages and in transition. These are subjects of the greatest interest to students of entrepreneurship and organizations, as well as to business historians, but the academic literature is thin. The chronological settings of the book's eleven substantive chapters are historical, reaching as far back as the late 1800s right up to the 1990s, but the issues they raise are evergreen and the historical perspective is exploited to advantage. The chapters ... Read more
This book is a collection of essays about the emergence of routines and, more generally, about getting things organized in firms and in industries in early stages and in transition. These are subjects of the greatest interest to students of entrepreneurship and organizations, as well as to business historians, but the academic literature is thin. The chronological settings of the book's eleven substantive chapters are historical, reaching as far back as the late 1800s right up to the 1990s, but the issues they raise are evergreen and the historical perspective is exploited to advantage. The chapters ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198787761
SKU
V9780198787761
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About . Ed(S): Raff, Daniel M. G.; Scranton, Philip
Daniel M.G. Raff is Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School of Business, Associate Professor of History, and Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the co-editor of four other scholarly books and the author of many articles and book chapters. Philip ... Read more
Reviews for The Emergence of Routines: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History
The Emergence of Routines is much more than a book on how organizational routines emerge and evolve; it is a fascinating journey into the world of the business historian and reveals the value of history in understanding organization...the historical essays in this book offer profound implications for future investigations of organizational routines-their emergence and morphing-by organizational, management, and entrepreneurship scholars, ... Read more