Petermann, Arne; Schreyögg, Georg; Fürstenau, Daniel - In: Business Research 12 (2019) 2, pp. 637-669
Theories of path dependence and incumbent inertia assume that self-reinforcing mechanisms lead to highly persistent and … (deliberately) the power of evolutionary self-reinforcing organizational dynamics, or vice versa. To our knowledge, there are no … indicate that in most situations self-reinforcing organizational dynamics can actually overrule hierarchical authority, whilst …