"The theory of path dependence continues to attract great interest in a range of disciplines. An increasing number of scholars have started to explicitly use this theory for studying organizational inertia and institutional rigidities. This volume...
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"The theory of path dependence continues to attract great interest in a range of disciplines. An increasing number of scholars have started to explicitly use this theory for studying organizational inertia and institutional rigidities. This volume presents a collection of papers from various international conferences that address these issues"--Provided by publisher
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Theoretical Foundations; 1 Understanding Institutional and Organizational Path Dependencies; 2 Slippery Paths of (Mis)Understanding? Historically Based Explanations in Social Science; Part II: Path Dependence in Public and Private Organizations; 3 Imprinting, Path Dependence and Metaroutines: The Genesis and Development of the Toyota Production System; 4 Path Dependence, Institutionalization and the Decline of Two Public Institutions; Part III: Strategic Path Dependence
5 Path Dependence through Corporate Political Activity6 Continuity in Change - Path Dependence and Transformation in Two Swedish Multinationals; Part IV: Path-dependent Industry Development; 7 Path Dependence, Modularity and the Offshoring of (Some) Physician Services; 8 The Horse's Hoof: Social Identity, Path Dependence and Path Creation in the Equine Industry; 9 Path Dependence in Merchant Institutions: The Case of French Public Timber Sales; 10 Path Dependence, Lock-in, and the Emergence of Clusters: The Case of Istanbul's Film Cluster
11 Path Dependence in Regional Development: What Future for Baden-Württemberg?Part V: Path Dependence of Policy and Institutions; 12 Explaining Path Dependence through Discourse Analysis: The Case of Seasonal Farm Workers in Germany; 13 Institutional Path Dependence: A Resistance to Controversies; Part VI: Perspectives on a Theory of Path Dependence; 14 Strategic Consequences of Co-evolutionary Lock-in: Insights from a Longitudinal Process Study; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V
