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Rules, Routines and Habitus

In: Operating Rules in Organizations

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  • Bénédicte Reynaud

    (CNRS–Cepremap)

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A number of answers to the question of how rules operate have emerged in the course of the book, some of them only briefly alluded to. In this chapter, it is attempted to put those answers into a broader context. The reasons why the mechanistic concept of rules adopted by most economists is rejected is outlined first. Then the idea that a different concept of rules is put forward, one in which they are regarded as statements in need of interpretation, is possible. The interpretation of rules requires the presence of active individuals who, endowed with certain dispositions and characterized by a certain style or habitus, follow or infringe the rules, make them subjects for negotiation and thereby transform them. In the final part of the chapter it is also shown that the meaning of a rule lies in its uses, rather than the other way round.

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  • Bénédicte Reynaud, 2002. "Rules, Routines and Habitus," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Operating Rules in Organizations, chapter 6, pages 117-133, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-1442-2_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403914422_7
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