Abstract
Existing research on agility has primarily focused on well-planned and deliberate decisions made by top-level managers, thereby overlooking how organizations become agile through micro situated actions of actors located at the lower level of organizational hierarchy. Drawing on routine dynamics theory and a qualitative dataset of thirty (30) interviews, three hundred and fifty (350) hours observations, and twenty-five (25) archival documents, we show how situated, interdependent enactment of routines yield variation in action patterns that congeal into viable agile paths. Our study elucidates the emergence of agility as generatively sensed from prior rounds of (un)successful coping actions of lower-level actors which are refined in the unfolding of their situated accomplishments. The study has significant implications for the discourse on organizational agility and routine dynamics.