The Emergence of Routines Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History

by Raff, Daniel M.G.; Scranton, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780191829857
• ISBN10: 0191829854
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Daniel M.G. Raff, Associate Professor of Management, Management Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,Philip Scranton, Emeritus Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers University

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 Scranton is Emeritus Board of Governors Professor, History of Industry and Technology, Rutgers University, author or editor of 15 scholarly books, the author of many articles and book chapters, and editor-in-chief of Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History, 2007-14

Table of Contents

Introduction: Silences and Beginning to Fill Them, Daniel Raff and Philip Scranton
Part One: Initiatives
1. The Book-of-the-Month Club as a New Enterprise, Daniel Raff
2. Capitalist Routine, Organizational Routines, and the Routinization of R&D at ALCOA, Margaret Graham
3. The Global in the 1980s and 1990s: Liquid Modernity, Routines, and the Case of Motorola's Iridium Satellite Communications Venture, Martin Collins
4. The Dynamic Interplay between Standards and Routines: Lessons from Industry and Government, Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell
Part Two: Operations
5. Ford Motor Company's Lost Chapter: Purchasing Routine and the Advent of Mass Production, Damon Yarnell
6. Heuristics, Specifications, and Routines in Building Long- Span Railway Bridges on the Western Rivers, 1865-1880, John K. Brown
7. Rules of the Game: Dam Building and Regulation in California, 1910-1930, Donald C. Jackson
8. Instruments of Change: Contract Regulations as a Source of Flexibility in Defense Procurement, 1942-1972, Glen Asner
Part Three: Transitions
9. The End of Judgment: Consumer Credit Scoring and Managerial Resistance to the Black-Boxing of Creditworthiness, Josh Lauer
10. Devising Routines for Project Appraisal at the World Bank, 1945-1975, Michele Alacevich
11. Routines for Innovation: Problem-Oriented Knowledge Communities and the Production of Clean Combustion, Ann Johnson
Conclusion: Learning from History, Daniel Raff and Philip Scranton