Shared rules create coordination benefits that freeze organizational routines

Evidence

Coordination effects thus result from the benefits of following the same single rule or set of related rules to which others are willing to conform. As a result, through the advantages of continued replication, a specific pattern of practices is likely to become fixed. The fixing power of such arrangements has been proved in cases where organizational members have recognized new challenges and set out to change their practices but failed to do so because they could not get rid of their wellattuned activity sets and routines. — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 80

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘coordination effects’ and ‘internal consistency’ as organizational fit among elements.