The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence Institutions and Organizations

by Sydow, Jorg; Schreyögg, Georg

• ISBN13: 9780230220812
• ISBN10: 0230220819
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

JORG SYDOW is Professor of Management at Freie Universitt, Berlin, Germany. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck, the University of Vienna (both Austria), and the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. From 2004-2007 he was an international Visiting Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), London.

GEORG SCHREYGG is Professor of Organization and Leadership at Freie Universitt, Berlin, Germany. His current research interests include organizational change, organizational capabilities and path dependency. He received his doctorate in Business Administration from the Universitt Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. In 2005-6 he served as President of the German Association of University Teachers for Business Administration (VHB).

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Theoretical Foundations
Understanding Institutional and Organizational Path Dependencies	p. 3
Slippery Paths of (Mis)Understanding? Historically Based Explanations in Social Science	p. 13
Path Dependence in Public and Private Organizations
Imprinting, Path Dependence and Metaroutines: The Genesis and Development of the Toyota Production System	p. 35
Path Dependence, Institutionalization and the Decline of Two Public Institutions	p. 50
Strategic Path Dependence
Path Dependence through Corporate Political Activity	p. 71
Continuity in Change - Path Dependence and Transformation in Two Swedish Multinationals	p. 94
Path-dependent Industry Development
Path Dependence, Modularity and the Offshoring of (Some) Physician Services	p. 113
The Horse's Hoof: Social Identity, Path Dependence and Path Creation in the Equine Industry	p. 129
Path Dependence in Merchant Institutions: The Case of French Public Timber Sales	p. 148
Path Dependence, Lock-in, and the Emergence of Clusters: The Case of Istanbul's Film Cluster	p. 161
Path Dependence in Regional Development: What Future for Baden-Württemberg?	p. 178
Path Dependence of Policy and Institutions
Explaining Path Dependence through Discourse Analysis: The Case of Seasonal Farm Workers in Germany	p. 197
Institutional Path Dependence: A Resistance to Controversies	p. 217
Perspectives on a Theory of Path Dependence
Strategic Consequences of Co-evolutionary Lock-in: Insights from a Longitudinal Process Study	p. 233
Index	p. 249
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