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Volume 27, Issue 3
Special Issue on Routine Dynamics
May-June 2016
Pages 505-800
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Silke Bucher, Ann Langley (2016) The Interplay of Reflective and Experimental Spaces in Interrupting and Reorienting Routine Dynamics. Organization Science 27(3):594-613.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2015.1041
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The authors would like to thank Senior Editor Luciana D’Adderio and three anonymous reviewers for their guidance in developing this paper. They are also grateful to Johannes Rüegg-Stürm and Claus Jacobs for inspiration and feedback regarding the initial ideas for this article and for supporting the empirical research. The authors are grateful to the managers and employees of the two hospitals involved in the study for their collaboration and support in this research project.
