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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Volume 49, Issue 8, Pages 1559-1585Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01065.x
Keywords
artefacts; bidding process; building industry; organizational routines; PFI; sociomateriality
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This paper argues that, in order to understand the development process of new routines, we have to look at the emergence of systems of artefacts rather than at individual artefacts in isolation. The paper proposes a typology of artefacts understood as material objects that are the product of human activity and analyses their interactions in the case of an integrated engineering design consultancy engaged in the effort of developing a new bidding routine. The evidence from the case study shows that agents reinforce and extend the patterns of action that individual artefacts support by bundling different types of artefacts, and that in so doing, they extend the reach and influence of the community to which they belong. This study shows that the problem-solving and truce aspects of routines are worked out in the design of these systems of artefacts.
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