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Rule Systems as Sources of Organizational Lock-ins and what to do about them

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The unfolding of any collective action supposes the stabilization of patterns of interaction and the effective coordination of behavior. It is unthinkable without the cognitive, normative, material and political rule-systems and structures capable of fixing and aligning behavior, creating routines, repertoires and interests, imposing terms of reference and terms of legitimacy, in other words frames able to guarantee a minimum of orderliness, of foresight and of trust in an otherwise chaotic and uncertain world.

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Friedberg, E. (2012). Rule Systems as Sources of Organizational Lock-ins and what to do about them. In: Duschek, S., Gaitanides, M., Matiaske, W., Ortmann, G. (eds) Organisationen regeln. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-94050-2_11

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