Comments on: One More Ill-Defined, Un-Measured (?) Core Construct: Routines http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/04/25/one-more-ill-defined-un-measured-core-construct-routines/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: meandering through an idea or two… « Innovation Leadership Network http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/04/25/one-more-ill-defined-un-measured-core-construct-routines/#comment-74236 Mon, 18 May 2009 08:49:51 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5530#comment-74236 [...] & Markets blog have been on the warpath against fuzzy concepts in management studies – the latest target being the idea of routines. Teppo’s collaborators at orgtheory.net responded to this by saying that all social science [...]

]]> By: sorry, peter klein, social science is a fuzzy business « orgtheory.net http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/04/25/one-more-ill-defined-un-measured-core-construct-routines/#comment-74181 Wed, 13 May 2009 03:27:48 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5530#comment-74181 [...] Evil twin conspirators Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss have been ragging on management scholars for using ill-defined concepts, like routines and leadership. When I read the post, I thought it was odd – aren’t all social science concepts a [...]

]]> By: Peter Klein http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/04/25/one-more-ill-defined-un-measured-core-construct-routines/#comment-74039 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:20:11 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5530#comment-74039 To come up with some new metrics, why not offer some financial incentive:

http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/005833.php

]]> By: spostrel http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/04/25/one-more-ill-defined-un-measured-core-construct-routines/#comment-74027 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:03:03 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5530#comment-74027 Best shot I’ve seen at a micro-level is Pentland and Reuter deploying a grammatical approach at a product-support call center:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2393300?seq=15

Very direct approach, really makes you think about what the heck you want a routine to mean.

]]> By: David G. Hoopes http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/04/25/one-more-ill-defined-un-measured-core-construct-routines/#comment-74005 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:44:14 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5530#comment-74005 There is always more room for first class empirical work. So everyone feel free to join in.

]]> By: David Chen http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/04/25/one-more-ill-defined-un-measured-core-construct-routines/#comment-73986 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:49:36 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=5530#comment-73986 At the risk of saying something so obvious it goes without saying, the challenge might be in sampling, not measuring.

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