The construction of collective competencies in the dynamics of budgetary routines

The growing diffusion of collective work configurations in the current organizational environment has remained largely overlooked in the scientific body of work on the theme (BOREHAM, 2011). Paradoxically, however, certain currents in the debate about organizations highlight the role of collective w...

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Authors: Broman, Samantha Luiza de Souza, Ruas, Roberto Lima, Rocha-Pinto, Sandra Regina da
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2019
Country:Brasil
Institution:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repository:Cadernos EBAPE.BR
Language:Portuguese
English
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/74729
Online Access:https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/74729
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Organizational routines. Collective competencies. Dynamic routines. Phenomenography.
Rutinas organizativas. Competencias colectivas. Dinámica de rutinas. Fenomenografía.
Rotinas organizacionais. Competências coletivas. Dinâmica das rotinas. Fenomenografia.
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Summary:The growing diffusion of collective work configurations in the current organizational environment has remained largely overlooked in the scientific body of work on the theme (BOREHAM, 2011). Paradoxically, however, certain currents in the debate about organizations highlight the role of collective work, as is the case with the literature on organizational routines (NELSON and WINTER, 2005; PENTLAND and FELDMAN, 2005). The question that motivates this investigation explores the relationship between those two themes: can the dynamics of corporate budgeting constitute an adequate space for the formation and development of collective competences? The objective of this question is an inquiry into the design of corporate budgets, from an organizational-routine approach, to identify evidence of teamwork and the formation of collective competences and attributes. The responses transit through a qualitative and phenomenographic investigation that pointed to four descriptive categories of collective work: commitment to deliver, reconfiguration of routines, shared availability, and building relationship networks. The contributions of the research include the potential of the organizational routines theory as a reference for the analysis of corporate processes, the identification of processes capable of contributing to the management of workgroups, and the use of the phenomenographic method as an alternative to frame somewhat intangible organizational phenomena.