Brian Pentland

Hansson, M., Hærem, T., and Pentland, B.T. (2022) “The Effect of Repertoire, Routinization and Enacted Complexity: Explaining Task Performance Through Patterns of Action,” Organization Studies.Pentland, B.T., Yoo, Y., Recker, J., and Kim, I. (2022) “From Lock-in to Transformation: A Path-centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing,” Organization Science, 33(1): 194-211.Pentland, B.T., Vaast, E. and Ryan Wolf, J. (2021) "Theorizing process dynamics with directed graphs: A diachronic analysis of digital trace data," MIS Quarterly, 45(2) 967-984. Pentland, B.T., Liu, P. Kremser, W., and Hærem, T. (2021) "Do small variations accumulate into big changes?" In Lounsbury, M., Anderson, D.A. and Spee, P. (Eds.) On Practice and Institution: New Empirical Directions(Research in Sociology of Organizations, Vol 71), p. 29-44.Pentland, B.T., Liu, P. Kremser, W., and Hærem, T. (2020) “Dynamics of Drift in Digitized Processes,” MIS Quarterly, (44:1), 19-47.
Mendling, J. Pentland, B.T., Recker, J. (2020) "Building a Complementary Agenda for Business Process Management and Digital Innovation," European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), 29(3), 208-219.Pentland, B.T., Recker, J., Ryan Wolf, J., and Wyner, G.  (2020) "Bringing Context into the Analysis of Process with Digital Trace Data," The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), 21(5),1214-1236.Goh, K. and Pentland, B. T. (2019) "From Actions to Paths to Patterning: Toward a Dynamic Theory of Patterning in Routines," Academy of Management Journal, 62(6), 1901-1929. Pentland, B.T., Recker, J. and Wyner, G.  (2017) "Rediscovering Handoffs," Academy of Management Discoveries, 3(3), 284-301. doi:10.5465/amd.2016.0018Pentland, B.T., Mahringer, C., Dittrich, K., Feldman, M.S. and Ryan Wolf, J. (2020) "Process Multiplicity and Process Dynamics: Weaving the Space of Possible Paths," Organization Theory, 1(3), 1-21.Feldman, M.S. Pentland, B. T., D’Adderio, L. and Lazaric, N. (2016) “Beyond routines as things: Introduction to the special issue on routine dynamics,” Organization Science, 27(3), 505-513.Hærem, T. Pentland, B. T., and Miller, K. D. (2015) “Task complexity: Extending a core concept,” Academy of Management Review, 40(3): 446-460.Pentland, B. T. (2013) “Desperately seeking structure: Grammars of action in information systems research,” The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, 44(2): 7-18.Pentland, B. T., Feldman, M. S., Becker, M. and Liu, P. (2012), "Dynamics of Organizational Routines: A generative Model" Journal of Management Studies, 49(8).Miller, K.D., Pentland, B.T. and Choi, S. (2012) "Dynamics of Performing and Remembering Organizational Routines" Journal of Management Studies, 49(8).Pentland, B. T. (2011) "The foundation is solid if you know where to look: Comments on Felin and Foss" Journal of Institutional Economics, 7(2), 279-293.Pentland, B. T., T. Haerem and D. Hillison (2011) "The (n)ever changing world: Stability and change in organizational routines" Organization Science, 22(6), 1369-1383.Pentland, B. T., T. Haerem and D. Hillison. (2010). Comparing Organizational Routines as Recurrent Patterns of Action. Organization Studies. 31: 7. 917-940.Lee, J., Wyner, G and Pentland, B. T.. (2008). Constraining the Search Space with Grammar-Based Design. MIS Quarterly. 32: 4. 757-778.Pentland, B. T. and Feldman, M. S.. (2008). Designing Routines: On the folly of designing artifacts, while hoping for patterns of action. Information and Organization. 18: 4. 235-250.Pentland, B. T. and Feldman, M. S.. (2007). Narrative Networks: Patterns of technology and organization. Organization Science. 18: 5. 781-795.Pentland, B. T., Pentland, A. P. and Calantone, R. (2017) "Bracketing off the actors: Towards an action-centric research agenda," Information and Organization, 27, 137-143.Pentland, B. T. and Feldman, M. S.. (2005). Organizational routines as a unit of analysis. Industrial and Corporate Change.Pentland, B T. (2003). Conceptualizing and Measuring Variety in Organizational Work Processes. Management Science.Feldman, M. S. and Pentland, B. T.. (2003). Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change. administrative science quarterly.Pentland, B T. (2003). Sequential variety in work processes. Organization Science.Kwon, P. M. J. Chung, and B. Pentland,. (2002). A Grammar-Based Framework for Integrating Design and Manufacturing. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering.Chung, M.J., P. Kwon and B. Pentland. (2002). Making Process Visible: A Grammatical Approach To Managing Design Processes. Journal of Mechanical Design.Pentland, B T. (1999). Building process theory with narrative: From description to explanation. Academy of Management Review.Pentland, B. T. (2013) “Desperately seeking structure: Grammars of action in information systems research,” The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, 44(2): 7-18.
Hansson, M., Hærem, T., and Pentland, B.T. (2022) “The Effect of Repertoire, Routinization and Enacted Complexity: Explaining Task Performance Through Patterns of Action,” Organization Studies.