Martha Feldman

About

Martha S. Feldman is the Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management and a Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Management, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her PhD from Stanford University in 1983. Her research focuses on organization theory and behavior, particularly the stability and change in organizations, decision making, information processing, public management, and qualitative research methods. She explores organizational routines, their role in creating, maintaining, and altering organizational phenomena, and the dynamics of organizational routines as a source of change and stability. Feldman has received numerous awards for her scholarly contributions, including the Administrative Science Quarterly's 2009 award for Scholarly Contribution, the 2011 Academy of Management Practice Scholarship Award, and an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen School of Management in 2014. She was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters in 2014 and 2015, and she is a Fellow of the Academy of Management. Her work has significantly contributed to understanding organizational routines, inclusive management, and public management practices, with a focus on collaborative boundary work, participation, and inclusion in public organizations.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Epistemology
• Engineering
• Management science
• Mathematics
• Social Science
• Social psychology
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Coding Practices and Iterativity: Beyond Templates for Analyzing Qualitative Data

  Organizational Research Methods · 2020 · 339 citations

  Researchers can expect to perform analytic actions repeatedly; that this iteration is required is a common observation. Yet, how researchers engage in iteration to progress their theorizing is not articulated. Our analysis provides new insight into what it means to iterate in the service of driving analysis. We examine iteration through the lens of the analytic process of coding in specific research projects. Using a relational definition of coding, we identify the reported coding actions of sev…

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• Moving Beyond Templates: A Bricolage Approach to Conducting Trustworthy Qualitative Research

  Organizational Research Methods · 2020 · 333 citations

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  Although the rising popularity of methodological templates has yielded an increasing interest in qualitative research, we discuss how the misuse of methodological templates can diminish the quality of research. As an alternative, we propose methodological bricolage as an organizing metaphor for how to do qualitative methods, which involves the combining of analytic moves for the purpose of solving a problem or problems tailored to one’s own research project. To develop a methodological bricolage…

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• Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021 · 120 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Over the last two decades, Routine Dynamics has emerged as an international research community that shares a particular approach to organizational phenomena. At the heart of this approach is an interest in examining the emergence, reproduction, replication and change of routines as recognizable patterns of actions. In contrast to other research communities interested in those phenomena, Routine Dynamics studies are informed by a distinctive set of theories (especially practice theory and related…

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• A Curated Debate: On Using “Templates” in Qualitative Research

  Journal of Management Inquiry · 2022-05-12 · 98 citations

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  One of the raging debates in organization study concerns the use of “templates” in qualitative research. This curated debate brings together many of the players in that debate, who make statements of position relative to the issues involved and trade accusations and counter-accusations about statements they have made that in their view have been misinterpreted or misconstrued. Overall, it is quite a lively debate that reveals positions, points of tension and grounds for disagreement. Denny Gioia…

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• Routine dynamics: Toward a critical conversation

  Strategic Organization · 2022-09-26 · 40 citations

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  In this essay, we suggest new research directions for the study of routines that intersect with and draw upon conversations about the reproduction of privilege and oppression as a strategic issue in organizations. We focus on how social inequality is reproduced and normalized by routines. We describe and illustrate how analyzing the dynamics of organizational routines can help us understand the production and reproduction of social inequality and the possibility of amelioration.

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Frequent coauthors

• Brian T. Pentland

  30 shared

• Ann Langley

  28 shared

• Haridimos Tsoukas

  28 shared

• David M. Bøje

  27 shared

• Eero Vaara

  University of Oxford

  21 shared

• Luciana D’Adderio

  University of Edinburgh

  19 shared

• Robert Chia

  Adam Smith Institute

  15 shared

• A. D. Brown

  12 shared

Awards & honors

• Administrative Science Quarterly's 2009 award for Scholarly…
• 2011 Academy of Management Practice Scholarship Award
• Honorary Doctorate in Economics from the University of St. G…
• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers (2014)
• Academy of Management Distinguished Scholar for the Organiza…

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