Drawing from advances in Organisational Studies and recent debates within Economic Sociology and the Sociology of Financial Markets, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that characterises the mutual adaptation between formal routines and rules, on one hand, and actual performances, on...

Recent advances in information and communication technologies have provided a substantial push towards the codification of organizational knowledge and practices. It is argued that codification, and the subsequent delegation of organizational memory to software, entails fundamental structural...

Existing theories of organizational routines have generally had simplistic and extreme views of artifacts as fully deterministic or largely inconsequential. Artifacts have been treated as either too solid to be avoided, or too flexible to have an effect. This paper endeavours to improve our...