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Abstract:It is argued that routines can be fruitfully conceived of as multilevel mechanisms. The merits of viewing routines as multilevel mechanisms are that it helps in putting together a coherent picture of what routines are, what routines do, and how they do it. In particular, it helps in getting a clearer picture of how skills and routines are ontologically (rather than metaphorically) related to each other. It allows us to see that while routines aregenerativemechanisms producing recurrent patterns of firm behavior, asmultilevelmechanisms they themselves are at the same time recurrent patterns of interaction within firms. Because of its 'behavioral' spirit, viewing routines as multilevel mechanisms (rather than as, for example, unobservable dispositions of firms to energize patterns of behavior in firms) greatly facilitates further empirical research on crucial, as yet unresolved issues, such as how stable and robust routines are and to what extent firm behavior is routine.

This comment is part of a symposium on Ekkehart Schlicht, On Custom in the Economy (1998)

Introduction / Alessandro Lanteri and Jack Vromen -- Part I. The Institutional Setting of Academic Economics: 1. The culture of academic economics / Arjo Klamer ; 2. The construction of a global profession: the transnationalization of economics / Marion Fourcade ; 3. Academic rankings between the "republic of Science" and "new public management" / Margit Osterloh and Bruno S Frey ; 4. Gatekeepers of economics: the network of editorial boards in economic journals / Alberto Baccini and Lucio Barabesi -- Part II. The Individual Incentives of Professional Economists: 5. Can European economics compete with U.S. economics? And should it? / David Colander ; 6. Career patterns of economics Ph. D.s: a decade of outcomes for the class of 1997 / Wendy Stock and John Siegfried ; 7. Scientific norms and the values of economists: the case of priority fights in economics / Wade Hands -- Part III. Challenges and Solutions: 8. Why economics is on the wrong track / Deirdre McCloskey ; 9. Do we try to teach our students too much? / Robert Frank; 10. The perils of narrative teaching in economics Jack Vromen; 11. Academic women's careers in the social sciences / Donna Ginther and Shulamit Kahn ; 12. Ought (only) economists to defect? Stereotypes, identity, and the prisoner dilemma / Alessandro Lanteri and Salvatore Rizzello ; 13. The financial crisis and the systemic failure of academic economics / David Colander, Hans Follmer, Armin Haas, Michael Goldberg, Katarina Juselius, Alan Kirman, Thomas Lux and Brigitte Sloth -- Index.