Bringing History into the Study of Routines: Contextualizing Performance
研究认为惯例是嵌入历史背景的行动模式，通过分析15世纪意大利、18世纪英格兰和苏格兰的教会巡视惯例，展示相似惯例因社会、政治和文化背景不同而呈现不同特征，强调将历史视角纳入惯例研究的重要性。
The focus on routines as ‘generative systems’ often portrays them as patterns of action relatively divorced from their context. History can help to supply a deeper and richer context, showing how routines are connected to broader structural and cultural factors. But it also shows that routines themselves have a history. This is explored using the illustration of the history of one particular organizational routine, that of the visitation of local organizational units by central church bodies, in three times and places: 15th century Italy, 18th century England and 18th century Scotland. This illustration shows that similar routines can be found but these are given very different inflections by the broader social, cultural and political context. Attention is drawn in particular to the differential involvement of lay actors and the implications for broader impacts. The case is made for analytical narratives of emergence of routines which can reconnect organizational routines both with their own history and with their broader context.