Video Methods and Routine Dynamics

doi:10.1017/9781108993340.012

Chapter 9 - Video Methods and Routine Dynamics

from Part II - Methodological Issues in Routine Dynamics Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2021

Curtis LeBaron and

Marlys K. Christianson

Edited by

Claus Rerup and

Martha S. Feldman: Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Brian T. Pentland: Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Luciana D'Adderio: Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Katharina Dittrich: Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Claus Rerup: Affiliation:
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
David Seidl: Affiliation:
University of Zurich

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Summary

Video is helping to enlarge our scholarly conversations about theoretical issues such as embodiment, materiality, and interactivity. Video methods are relatively new to the field of management and organizational studies, which is an opportunity for researchers to look anew at organizational routines and routine dynamics. This chapter shows how video can capture the recurring patterns of human activity that are a hallmark of organizational routines. Moreover, video can capture the audible and visible details of routine dynamics or changes to recurring patterns of organizational activity. Sometimes video methods are tricky. Sometimes seemingly simple cinematic and analytic decisions fundamentally clash with a researcher’s epistemological and ontological assumptions. This chapter helps guide researchers who may be new to video methods by reviewing existing literature on video methods and routine dynamics and providing a demonstration of how video data can be used to study routine dynamics.

Keywords

Routines routine dynamics video-based research methods video data

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Information: Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics , pp. 130 - 146

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993340.012 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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