Abstract
Although organizational routines have attracted increasing attention in strategy and organization research, they have received surprisingly limited attention in competitive dynamics scholarship. Our essay seeks to advance a routine-based view of interfirm rivalry by bridging the competitive dynamics and routine literatures. We put forward a conceptual model of the routine-based view of interfirm rivalry that is centered on “competitive action routines.” The model clarifies the roles that managers play in driving a firm’s competitive behavior, challenges the assumption of routine-based rigidity in competitive behavior, and adds nuance to our understanding of managerial cognition in competitive dynamics. Moreover, the routine-based view offers new insights regarding the awareness-motivation-capability framework, and amplifies previous calls to broaden the methodological repertoire of competitive dynamics research.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1476127020931359 |
Pages (from-to) | 433-446 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Strategic Organization |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- Behavioral theory of the firm < TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES
- competitive dynamics < TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES
- decision-making < TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES
- evolutionary theory < TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES
- organizational routines < TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES